Mitzi Harris Martin |
Partner
mitzi.martin@bakerd.com
Professional Experience
Mitzi Martin concentrates her practice in counseling and defending management in all aspects of employment law. She creatively counsels employers in managing their diverse work forces. Mitzi partners with management and human resources professionals to develop and implement policies and strategies to achieve a productive, satisfied work force, directly improving the bottom line. Her preventive maintenance initiatives include developing policies related to injured/ill employees, equal employment opportunity compliance, substance use and abuse, workplace violence, wage hour obligations, and labor relations. Mitzi also assists clients in developing strategies for effectively investigating alleged wrongdoing and restructuring work forces to avoid legal liability. Mitzi also counsels social service agencies and public employers on state and federal compliance challenges unique to those entities. When employers’ decisions are challenged, she litigates in state and federal forums.
Presentations
With 25 years of law practice and many more of life experiences, Mitzi combines inter-related skills from education, counseling, and law giving 75+ presentations annually. She trains employers in education, health care, construction, manufacturing, retail sales, and social services and presents to many trade associations. Sample topics are:
- Supervisors’ Liability & Responsibility Under EEO Law
- Better Results With Less Risk: Coaching, Counseling, Complimenting and Correcting Right
- Surviving Compliance With The ADA & The FMLA: What Every HR Professional & Supervisor Must Know
- Managing A Work Force Of Differences: Recognizing & Dealing With Workplace Cultural Collisions
- Building Better Employees Through Performance Evaluation
- Hiring Right: It Takes More Than A Gut Feeling
- Managing The Many Wrinkles Of The Aging Boom
- Mining Gold: Recruiting, Training, Re-Training, And Retaining 24k Employees
Mitzi urges employers to heed the U.S. Supreme Court’s admonition to “train” supervisors and employees to avoid a punitive damage award. Her dynamic, no nonsense approach clarifies management’s legal obligations and the professional, personal, and economic consequences of neglecting those obligations.