CPR's commitment to encouraging the use of ADR in resolving employment disputes is deep-seeded and persistent. In addition to publishing a major work in the area which is intended to assist employers of all sizes in installing and implementing ADR employment programs, CPR maintains a group of regional Employment Panels of Neutrals. It also maintains a standing Employment Advisory Committee, which meets at least once a year to discuss current events in employment ADR and share insights and techniques.
At its twice-yearly meetings, the CPR Employment Committee invites prominent guest speakers to hear about current developments in such areas as mediation of ADA claims, waiver of statutory claims, use of ADR by state and federal enforcement agencies, and the enforceability of mandatory and binding arbitration policies.
In 1998, the CPR Employment Committee published the CPR Program to Resolve Employment Disputes, which provided employers with the substantive background, structural issues, choices, communications models, and implementation checklists needed to plan, implement and administer an employment ADR system.
In 2002, the Committee released "How Companies Manage Employment Disputes." This 400-page volume is a compendium and analysis of 22 companies' employment dispute systems, and also includes in-depth interviews with some of the top legal minds in the country. In 2004 the CPR Program to Resolve Employment Disputes was revised under the title "Resource Book for Managing Employment Disputes". The Resource Book features in-depth discussions of management techniques in building employment dispute systems, as well as model agreements to mediate or arbitrate. "How Companies Manage Employment Disputes" is available for purchase in CPR's Store.