NJSBA: Workplace Investigations: The Latest in 2025

Workplace Investigations: Interview Techniques, Artificial Intelligence Integration, Legal Updates, and Trends for 2025

This year’s workplace investigations seminar explores issues front and center in today’s investigations. The program will provide a federal and state legal update and will discuss neurodiversity and trauma, concepts of AI integration, and other important trends in workplace investigations.

Topics include:

Legal Update: 

• U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforcement statistics  
  EEOC guidance on workplace harassment and impact on investigations  
  Impact of Trump administration on EEOC, EEO and DEI 
  National Labor Relations Board general counsel memo on the harmonization of the National Labor Relations Act and EEO Laws 
  Case law update  
  Investigation confidentiality: Usachenok v. State of New Jersey Department of the Treasury et al & Stericycle  

Neurodiversity and Trauma Impact on Investigations:

• Witness interviews
• Data collection
• Analysis
• Application of policy
• Legal Considerations such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, Health
• Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, privacy and evidential considerations 

Technology in Investigations:

• Forensics in investigations

• AI

Litigation, Privilege and NJLAD v Title IX/State Investigations:

• Investigations during litigation
• Privilege
• Interplay between NJLAD with Title IX/State Investigations