MEDIATION SERVICES

Alliance for Resolution offers a wide range of mediation services including:

1. mediation of internal and external conflicts
2. facilitation of negotiations
3. problem-solving sessions intended to short circuit potentially conflicting
4. situations (e.g., employee/manager, employee/employee)
5. Dispute systems design and analysis.

We also work on-site with staff on specific conflict situations and other areas of facilitation. Alliance for Resolution provides mediation service that helps companies resolve disputes before they turn into major crises. We also handle workplace mediations alongside attorneys. Below are some of the types of cases we have mediated:

• Sexual Harassment Disputes
• Americans with Disabilities Act
• Employee-Manager Disputes
• Employee-Employee Disputes
• Discrimination Disputes
• Wrongful Discharge
• Fee Disputes
• Disciplinary Issues
• Downsizing or Reorganizing
• Interdepartmental Conflicts

Examples of EEOC harassment and discrimination cases, including Age, Race and Disability:

• Harassment and discrimination of a deaf employee by a supervisor
• Racial harassment by co-workers
• Alleged age discrimination and harassment by manager
• Alleged discriminatory treatment of an employee by a supervisor due to race.
• Alleged discriminated due to medical disability
• Verbal racial harassment by supervisor towards an employee
• Denial of 'reasonable accommodation' for a disability
• Wrongful termination of employment
• Racial discrimination and retaliation for protesting discriminatory treatment
• Wrongful termination and age discrimination
• Pregnancy discrimination and wrongful termination

Cases dealing with Internal Workplace Disputes:

• Alleged harassment by other employees
• Employee claims that supervisor was discriminating due to race
• Employee claims senior managers were sexually harassing her which created a hostile work environment
• Employee claim that she was being treated differently by her manager and not given overtime
• Employee and manager are uncomfortable working together
• Employees not working well together
• Employee threatened another employee

Conflict Management Systems Design

We analyze a company's current dispute resolution options and design a well-constructed system that resolves your specific workplace conflicts effectively. Our uniquely tailored Conflict Management Systems Design provides easy-access processes that your employees will use for handling their own disputes. Our design process is divided in to two phases:

Phase I - Analysis and Evaluation

Phase II - Dispute Systems Design

We help you create a dispute resolution system that provides: 

• Early, accessible procedures that employees will use
• Multi-step process working from low-to-high cost sequence
• Available resources to support new procedures
• Implementation assistance