Jan. 23, 2008
- Judge Stanley Parness is named to NAM's distinguished panel of New York Dispute Resolution Professionals
Jan. 16, 2008
- Judge Jerome M. Becker is named to NAM's Panel of Highly Distinguished Dispute Resolution Professionals
Jan. 10, 2008
- Judge Gabriel M. Krausman joins NAM's panel of distinguished Dispute Resolution Professionals
Oct. 1, 2007
- Nationwide Leader in Dispute Resolution Names New Northeast Regional Managing Partner
Jul. 2, 2007
- Alan Fridkin, Esq. Joins NAM as a National Mediator Concentrating in the
Resolution of Life, Health and Disability Disputes in All Jurisdictions
THE FAIRNESS ISSUE: DUE PROCESS PROTOCOL
Federal and state laws, as well as the court decisions applying those statutes, have
redefined responsible corporate practices and employee relations. Employers and employees
face occasional workplace disputes involving alleged wrongful termination, sexual
harassment or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age
and disability.
Through National Arbitration and Mediation, Inc. (NAM), employers and their employees may
access alternative dispute resolution (ADR) practices to promptly and effectively resolve
workplace disputes.
NAM is an experienced and highly regarded provider of employment ADR services. With a
national panel of employment experts, NAM offers litigants a fair and expeditious way to
resolve employment-related disputes. NAM's policy on employment ADR is guided by existing
laws as well as its obligation to act in an impartial manner. In the interest of providing
an appropriate and pristine forum for the resolution of employment disputes, the NAM
employment program follows the Due Process Protocol for Mediation and Arbitration of
Statutory Disputes Arising Out of the Employment Relationship ("Due Process Protocol").
The Due Process Protocol was developed in 1995 by a special task force composed of
individuals representing management, labor, employment, civil rights organizations, private
administrative agencies and government. The Due Process Protocol, which is endorsed
by NAM, seeks to ensure fairness and equity in the private resolution of workplace disputes.
It prescribes safeguards and recommendations as to the manner and methodology of conducting
an employment dispute using ADR. The task force concluded that this methodology should be
encouraged in order to provide expeditious, accessible, inexpensive and fair private
enforcement of statutory employment disputes with the hope that ADR will reduce delays
caused by the huge backlog of cases pending before administrative agencies and the courts.
The Due Process Protocol has been endorsed by organizations representing a broad
range of constituencies. They include NAM, the American Bar Association Labor and Employment
Section, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service,
the National Academy of Arbitrators, and the National Society of Professionals in Dispute
Resolution. The National Employment Lawyers Association has endorsed the substantive
provisions of the Due Process Protocol.
It has been incorporated into the Report of the United States Secretary of Labor's Task
Force in Excellence in State and Local Government and cited with approval in numerous
court opinions.
