6-Hour Program

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Overview

WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND

 Employment law is no longer a local issue.  Multinational employers must grapple with often conflicting standards for hiring, retaining, disciplining, and terminating employees.  The issues are all the more challenging today, as employment laws from the U.S. and overseas, impose standards of conduct across borders. 

 Global employers increasingly want global solutions to issues like diversity, background checks, working time, and medical examinations.  The push by governments to require companies to add women to their Boards has had an admirable trickle-down effect, but what are the limits on requiring companies to abide by hiring quotas across borders? 

 Cross-border transfer of personnel continues to be an evolving issue, with tax and social security issues always a concern.  But how effectively can across-the-board solutions be implemented? 

 In addition to these pointed issues, 2015 saw many more cross-border acquisitions, and more attention to supply chains, human rights laws, and global labor union organizing. And of course, we are seeing more aggressive efforts to enforce global anti-corruption laws and whistleblower protection laws.

 This program brings together highly experienced and sophisticated practitioners, in-house counsel, and senior human resources executives from around the world.  They will present, in a practical way, how best to advise the multinational employer in these critical issues.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Different legal standards across borders for hiring and firing

• Global concept of “just cause” dismissal versus U.S. “employment at will”

• Supply chains and corporate compliance

• Discrimination and retaliation laws worldwide

• Diversity, quotas, and women on boards – an emerging issue

• Human rights initiatives: current practices and implementation

• First-world countries, sub-Saharan Africa, and special challenges

• Cross-border restrictive covenants and confidentiality agreements

• Overseas union and works councils

• The international whistleblower:  best practices in avoiding criminal and civil liability

• Cross-border litigation and investigations

• Cross border data privacy update

Special Feature

Earn one hour of Ethics credit

Credit Offered

• CLE, CPD and HRCI HR Recertification

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

General counsel and outside counsel for U.S. and overseas-based multinationals, in-house international and labor counsel, and human resources executives.

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