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
- Different legal standards across borders for hiring and firing
- Discrimination and retaliation laws worldwide
- Best practices in avoiding criminal and civil liability, and dealing with the international whistleblower
- Why foreign multinationals in the U.S. are special targets for lawsuits, and how to prevent and defend them
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.
Afternoon Session: 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
1:30 Opening Remarks and Introduction
Philip M. Berkowitz
1:45 Hiring, Disciplining and Firing: A Soup-to-Nuts Review of What You Can and Can’t Do Overseas
- The seconded employee/managing expatriates on assignment
- Cause and no-cause dismissals
- Harassment and discrimination claims overseas
- Application of U.S. employment laws overseas
- Related data privacy issues overseas
Elizabeth A. Lalik (Moderator), Raffaella Betti Berutto, Thomas Müller-Bonanni, Manuel Martinez-Herrera, Louise Patry
2:45 Networking Break
3:00 Foreign Companies Doing Business in the U.S.: Special Challenges
- Managing the cultural and legal expectations of multinationals
- Special defenses and dangers for foreign companies
- Preparing the foreign executive for litigation
- Privacy/data protection and US discovery
Philip Berkowitz (Moderator), Beth Adamson, Wendi S. Lazar, George A. Pierce, Gary R. Siniscalco
4:00 International Whistleblowers: Investigating Corruption Across Borders
- Attorney client privilege issues
- Increased risk of individual criminal liability
- Multi-jurisdictional Compliance with Dodd Frank, SOX, the FCPA, UK Bribery Act and OECD Guidelines
- Deferred or non-prosecution agreements under the UK Bribery Act
- Other relevant legal and ethical concerns
Edward O’Callaghan (Moderator), Bettina Bender, Michelle A. Miller, Anders Etgen Reitz
5:00
Adjourn
Chairperson(s)
Speaker(s)
Beth Adamson ~ Managing Director -- Human Resources, Rothschild North America, Inc.
George A. Pierce ~ Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Toyota Tsusho America Inc.
Program Attorney(s)
New York City Seminar Location
PLI New York Center, 810 Seventh Avenue at 53rd Street (21st floor), New York, New York 10019. Message Center, program days only: (212) 824-5733.
New York City Hotel Accommodations
Due to high demand and limited inventory in NYC, we recommend reserving hotel rooms as early as possible.
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