Cathy Creighton is Director of the ILR School’s Buffalo Co-Lab. Prior to assuming this role, Ms. Creighton taught classes to workers interested in becoming union representatives through the ILR Extension’s Labor Studies Program. A graduate of the ILR School, she has been involved with ILR’s High Road Fellowships program since its inception in 2009, serving on the program’s advisory board. Ms. Creighton, who helped draft Buffalo’s living wage ordinance, is former chair of the city’s Living Wage Commission; a co-founding partner of the law firm Creighton, Pearce, Johnsen & Giroux; and director of the Erie County Fiscal Stability Authority. She also serves on the Coalition for Economic Justice Workers’ Rights Board and is a former board member of the Lawyers Coordinating Committee of the AFL-CIO and the Labor and Employment Relations Association of Western New York.
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Event Overview
In a number of organizations, an employee is encouraged to bring their "whole self" to work. This can play out in various ways, but many employees have recently taken to protesting their employers over practices and policies related to social justice, current events, and politics.
Now many are surprised to learn that they don’t enjoy the free speech rights they thought they were entitled to at their jobs. In some cases, workers actually have fewer rights than previously believed. Suddenly, we’re looking to employment law for answers.
Join Cathy Creighton, labor relations expert and director of the Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, for a close look at employment law and employees’ legal rights at work. Whether you are an employee or an employer, you may be surprised by what you’ll discover about free speech rights at work in the United States.
Now many are surprised to learn that they don’t enjoy the free speech rights they thought they were entitled to at their jobs. In some cases, workers actually have fewer rights than previously believed. Suddenly, we’re looking to employment law for answers.
Join Cathy Creighton, labor relations expert and director of the Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, for a close look at employment law and employees’ legal rights at work. Whether you are an employee or an employer, you may be surprised by what you’ll discover about free speech rights at work in the United States.
What You'll Learn
- What legal rights you have in the workplace
- How the Constitution protects — or does not protect — your rights at work
- What legal remedies you have if you are retaliated against or fired for protesting at work
- What your rights are after termination
Speaker
Cathy Creighton ’87
Director
Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab
Director, Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab
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