Employment

Past 12 Months

Recorded on: Aug. 2, 2012

Taken from the briefing Health Care Reform After the Supreme Court Decision: What Employers Need to Know Now for Compliance, Transactions and Executive Compensation recorded August, 2012. In the wake of the recent Supreme Court Decision upholding the constitutionality of the individual mandates under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), employers are assessing the impact of the ACA on their group health plans and their businesses as a ...

Recorded on: Aug. 10, 2012

AMY TAUB: Thank you. Greetings. My name is Amy Taub, and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Gender in the Workplace, Dealing With Complex and Cutting-Edge Issues. Before we begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials for this briefing via ...

From the program: California Employment Law Update 2012

Released on: Sep. 21, 2012

PLI’s California Employment Law Update addresses the issues confronted by employment law advisers, litigators and human resources management and professionals. This program combines a comprehensive review of a broad range of case law and regulatory developments, an in-depth analysis of emerging issues, and practical guidance about best practices to maximize employment law compliance, mitigate legal risk and achieve business objectives. The ...

From the program: Technology and Entertainment Convergence 2012: Hot Business and Legal Issues in "Technotainment"

Recorded on: Sep. 20, 2012

Taken from the Web Program Technology and Entertainment Convergence 2012: Hot Business and Legal Issues in "Technotainment" recorded September, 2012 in San Francisco. Lecture Topics  [01:00:05] Social Media - Legal Implications for Hiring and Managing Employees  [01:00:05] Various legal and practical issues surface with the convergence of social media and the workplace. As entertainment and technology employers strive to ...

Recorded on: Sep. 10, 2012

TIMOTHY J. LONG: So without further ado, let's start off with what will no doubt be one of the, if not the most exciting presentations of the day. I am honored to be joined by Dean Chemerinsky from UC Irvine School of Law. And I should say at the outset, and I didn't tell the dead this when we talked prior to this presentation about this, but he and I share a connection. When he was coming up the pedagogical ladder-- you must have been 16, if you ...

Recorded on: Sep. 10, 2012

TIMOTHY LONG: Good afternoon and welcome back. So we're going to start this afternoon's session with what I suspect will be not only a provocative presentation, but also something that will be very informative and educational. And we couldn't have a better panel for this presentation, which is focusing on elimination of bias in the legal workplace. To my right, is my partner, Pat Gillette. Pat, by the way, last night, was awarded the Transformational ...

Recorded on: Sep. 20, 2012

CYDNEY TUNE: All right. So no break right now. But this is a perfect segue into our next topic. Unions and guilds have staked their claim in the new world. And I've had-- people are wondering like, hey, wait a minute. I'm not a Hollywood producer. I'm not a studio. I'm a network. Why should I care about this topic? And what I'm seeing a lot of my clients is that first of all, mobile content creation is sort of the Wild West, right? So you've got ...

Recorded on: Sep. 20, 2012

CYDNEY A. TUNE: I'm going to move right along. I do have a comment during this transition period. I am sure you have probably experienced this same thing, it's on this topic. Whether your client's a publisher, a developer, a company with content, and you're trying to make good terms for the apps, or whatever, and the client always says, yeah, but nobody reads them. What difference does it make what's in there? Nobody reads them. I can't tell you how ...

Recorded on: Sep. 24, 2012

Taken from the briefing Social Networking and the NLRA: The 21st Century Water Cooler recorded September, 2012. Within the past eighteen months, the National Labor Relations Board has received more than 100 charges by employees who claim that they were disciplined or fired because of their work-related online communications, primarily through Facebook or other social networking sites.  These charges have highlighted the sometimes ...

From the program: Employment Law Institute 2012

Released on: Nov. 6, 2012

PLI’s annual Employment Law Institute combines a comprehensive review of case law and regulatory developments, an in-depth analysis of emerging issues, and best practices to maximize employment law compliance, mitigate legal risk and achieve business objectives. The faculty is comprised of nationally recognized management and plaintiffs’ attorneys, in-house counsel and government enforcement agency officials who share their perspectives, ...

Recorded on: Nov. 5, 2012

AMY L. BESS: We're excited to have a great panel to speak on social media issues today. First, I'd like to introduce Jill Rosenberg, who is an employment partner at Orrick, Herrington. Jill's practice is a general practice covering all aspects of employment defense work. And she represents a broad range of companies and organizations, including employers in the financial services industry, banks and financial institutions, accounting and law firms, ...

Recorded on: Nov. 5, 2012

ZACHARY FASMAN: OK, well that was pretty good. It's sort of changing a scene in the theater. That's pretty good. I mean, we did that quickly. From EEOC, EEOC and systemic stuff, and I hope you're sufficiently scared or encouraged if you're plaintiff's counsel to know that the commission is enforcing the law as it is. We're going to turn to something a little bit different here, which is psychological issues in employment litigation. We've assembled ...

Recorded on: Nov. 5, 2012

ZACHARY D. FASMAN: OK. So, this section is called The Year in Review. You've got it on your program. We're going to split this up in various different ways. The three of us have known each other for more time than any of us would like to admit. So it's going to be a lively interchange, I think, with us on the panel. I don't think any of us is going to say, oh, you have to be kidding, but you never know. Who knows. We'll see what goes on. With that ...

Recorded on: Nov. 5, 2012

ZACHARY D. FASMAN: OK. All right folks, let's get back to business. The next section is on Fair Labor Standards Act and Wage Hour Update. And I'm going to turn this program over to people that-- if you've been here before, you've heard them speak on this. To my immediate right, David Fortney. David is the co-founder of Fortney & Scott, which is a Washington DC based law firm that represents employers in labor law. You can see David's resume in ...

Recorded on: Nov. 5, 2012

AMY L. BESS: Thank you, Danielle. I would just like to say just to echo what Daniel just said that this year, when Zach and I and Danielle were getting together to plan the agenda for this event, we really did look at last year's evaluations and the recommendations that all of you who attended last year made with regard to what kind of programming you wanted to see this year. And we've already had a couple people stop us after a segment and say, ...

Recorded on: Nov. 5, 2012

ZACHARY D FASMAN: All right, folks. Can we get started again? Our next session is called Litigating and Defending Age Discrimination and Retaliation Cases, cases that raise unique questions in the employment field. And we have, to my right a distinguished and, in some respects, familiar panel for you. Let me introduce them quickly. On my immediate right is Amy Bess, who, of course, is the co-chair of this conference. You have heard her introduced ...

Recorded on: Nov. 5, 2012

AMY L. BESS: So I'm going to go ahead and introduce our next speakers that are going to be speaking about managing leaves of absence under FMLA, ADA, Workers' Compensation, and other laws. We're pleased and privileged to have with us today two really experienced lawyers and professionals in the area of managing leaves of absence. Sara Elder, who's a friend and client of mine who I've worked with for many, many years is here from Sears. And Sara is ...

Recorded on: Nov. 5, 2012

ZACHARY D. FASMAN: All right. You all ready? Good, good. All right. We wanted to provide you with a section that dealt with, on a more or less holistic basis, the concept of independent contractors in various areas of employment law. It's a huge subject. And it's one that's fascinating not just from the definition-- I know that our three panelists are not going to do the IRS 20 factor test on who's an employee, who's not an employee. That's not going ...

Recorded on: Jan. 11, 2013

Taken from the briefing On-Line Defamation: The Latest Developments and Trends recorded January, 2013. The explosion of social media and on-line review websites has resulted in a dramatic increase in defamation claims by employees, businesses and consumers. This briefing will focus on the latest legal developments and practical approaches to avoid and defend on-line defamation claims. For this new program we have an experienced ...

Recorded on: Jan. 28, 2013

AMY TAUB: Hello. My name is Amy Taub, and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, On-Line Defamation, the Latest Developments and Trends. Before we begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials for this briefing via the Course Handbook tab in the ...

From the program: Social Media 2013: Addressing Corporate Risks

Released on: Feb. 20, 2013

Did you know that Facebook now has one billion active users? (By contrast, the entire population of the United States is 310 million people.) Or that Facebook accounts for over ten percent of all U.S. web traffic? And that over 250 million photographs are posted to Facebook each day? Or that Twitter users are expected to send over 91 billion tweets during 2012? And that over four billion videos are viewed per day on YouTube? Facebook, Twitter, ...

Recorded on: Feb. 8, 2013

JOHN DELANEY: OK, we're back. A couple of housekeeping matters. As I mentioned at the beginning, we look forward to your feedback. Let us know what you like. Let us know about other topics that we can cover next year. We hope to have you back next year. So if you have thoughts about other issues you're seeing in your own practice that we haven't been able to touch upon in a day long conference, we'd love to hear about it. So please fill out the evaluation ...

Recorded on: Feb. 8, 2013

JOHN DELANEY: I think we're back. Next topic up is drafting and updating social media policies and guidelines. And one thing I will say. So much has happened in this area of the law since we last met a year ago that I can say with quite some confidence that, if your company hasn't updated its social media policy or guidelines in the past year, they're probably out of date, just because so much has happened in this area. And we're very fortunate to ...

From the program: Managing Wage & Hour Risks 2013

Released on: Feb. 25, 2013

Counsel as well as Human Resources and compliance personnel whose responsibilities include wage and hour matters must keep up to date on the latest developments, and understand and anticipate wage and hour risks so that these risks can be effectively managed through compliance programs and responses to early warning signs.  At the same time, given the sensitivity of these issues, it is critical for counsel on both sides to master best practices ...

From the program: Trade Secrets 2013: What Every IP Attorney Should Know

Recorded on: Feb. 14, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Trade Secrets 2013: What Every IP Attorney Should Know recorded February, 2013 in San Francisco. Lecture Topics  [00:58:21] Protecting Your Client's Secrets  [00:58:21] Creating value: identifying trade secrets that aren’t secret recipes Managing employees: what to do to reduce risks and preserve remedies Trade secret plumbing: how to stop leaks Monitoring employees and competitors ...