EEO Update
- Bundle(s):
- 2025 Public Sector Conference
- Categories:
- Labor Law | Labor Relations
- Speakers:
- Naomi Frisch | Abby Rogers
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 04 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Nov 07, 2025
- Product Type:
- On Demand - Also available: On Demand 15
- License:
- Never Expires.
Description
This session will address legal developments over the past year both under Title VII and the Illinois Human Rights Act. In addition to reviewing agency updates, the session will address major case law developments and continuing legal challenges. The session will include a practical discussion of tools and strategies labor and management can bring to these issues in the workplace.
Speaker
Naomi Frisch Related Seminars and Products
Attorney
Asher, Gittler & D'Alba, Ltd.
Naomi Frisch is an Attorney at Asher, Gittler & D’Alba, Ltd. in Chicago, Illinois, where she represents unions, individual workers, and benefit funds. Her practice focuses on preserving workers’ rights and benefits in both the Public and Private sectors. In August of 2025, Naomi began a three-year term as Union co-chair of the ABA Labor and Employment Law Section’s EEO Committee. Naomi received a Bachelor of Music, magna cum laude, from Northwestern University, a Masters of Music with distinction from DePaul University, and had a full-time career as a professional musician prior to earning her J.D. magna cum laude from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2017. At Chicago-Kent, Naomi earned certificates in Labor and Employment law and Litigation and Dispute Resolution (LADR), was inducted into the Order of the Coif, and was the 2017 recipient of the Sandra P. Zemm Labor Law Prize. For the last 25 years, Naomi has advocated for Union musicians at the bargaining table and in the workplace, and she has been fortunate to represent many musicians in a variety of legal matters since passing the bar. Naomi is also certified as a mediator by the Chicago Center for Conflict Resolution and mediates for the Chicago Commission on Human Relations.
Abby Rogers Related Seminars and Products
Partner
Engler, Callaway, Baasten & Sraga, LLC
Abby Rogers maintains a broad-based labor and employment practice, with decades of experience representing governmental entities and private sector clients. Ms. Rogers focuses on general employment relationship issues, labor relations matters and collective bargaining. Ms. Rogers divides her practice equally between counseling clients and defending clients in litigation, including labor arbitration, administrative and judicial proceedings. She has extensive experience with the FMLA and with medical and disability issues in the workplace. In addition, Ms. Rogers regularly lectures and conducts workforce training on issues related to non-discrimination and anti-harassment, managing medical issues and leaves of absence in the workplace, and managing other workplace concerns. She is a contributing author on “Sex Discrimination and Harassment,” to the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education publication Employment Discrimination: Unlawful Grounds and Prevention (2021) and a contributing author on “Freedom of Speech in the Public Workplace,” to the American Bar Association publication Municipal Law Desk Book (2015).
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