This is a webcast of the live New York session.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, corruption laws, and whistleblower laws, from the U.S. and overseas, impose standards of conduct across borders.
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
- Analysis of different legal standards across borders for hiring and firing, including enforcement of restrictive covenants and confidentially agreements
- Discrimination and retaliation laws worldwide
- Overseas union and works councils
- Best practices in avoiding criminal and civil liability, and dealing with the international whistleblower
- Cross border data privacy update
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.
PLI Group Discounts
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PLI Can Arrange Group Viewing to Your Firm
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Cancellations
All cancellations received 3 business days prior to the program will be refunded 100%. If you do not cancel within the allotted time period, payment is due in full. You may substitute another individual to attend the program at any time.
All times are E.D.T.
Morning Session: 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (E.D.T.)
9:00
Opening Remarks and Introduction
Philip M. Berkowitz
9:15
Cross-Border Assignments & Employment Agreements
- Executive compensation
- Drafting secondment agreements
- Enforcement of restrictive covenants across borders
- Choice of law and choice of forum issues
- Anticipating problems: how to terminate the assignment
Moderator: Johan Lubbe
Speakers: Bettina Bender, Erika Collins, Wendi Lazar, Anders Etgen Reitz
10:15
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: Cultural and Legal Challenges
- Liability exposure to expatriate employees on assignment in the U.S.
- Risk of expatriates making discrimination and compensation claims under U.S. law
- Different treatment of expatriates, and risk of discrimination claims
- Legal and cultural differences in employment
- Educating foreign managers on U.S.-style employment litigation
- Special employment law defenses available to foreign multinationals
Moderator: Philip M. Berkowitz
Speakers: Donald C. Dowling, Jr., Louise Patry, Gary Siniscalco, Frances Phillips Taft
11:15
Networking Break
11:30
Cross-Border Investigations & Ethical Issues
- Update on international enforcement of SOX, Dodd Frank, FCPA and UK Bribery Act
- Investigating employment law claims across borders
- Attorney-client privilege
- Privacy and discovery: workplace e-mails, social media and other electronic data
- Interacting with witnesses: cultural issues
Moderator: Edward C. O’Callaghan
Speakers: Carolina Tavares Rodrigues Davies, Ignacio Funes de Rioja, Martin L. Schmelkin, T.M.J. (Dorothé) Smits, Xiaolin Zhou
12:30
Adjourn
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