Employment Law Institute 2022

Why You Should Attend

This two-day event offers a comprehensive review of case law and regulatory developments, an in-depth analysis of emerging issues, and best practices, designed to maximize employment law compliance, mitigate legal risk and achieve business objectives. The faculty is composed of nationally recognized management, union and plaintiffs’ attorneys, in-house counsel and government enforcement agency representatives who share their perspectives, insights and experiences.

What You Will Learn

• Analyze important federal and state case law and regulatory developments of the past year
• Evaluate hiring/retention challenges and solutions during the "Great Resignation"
• Identify need to know 2022 wage and hour developments
• Summarize best practices for conducting effective investigations in public and private sector workplaces
• Discuss answers to your difficult leaves of absence and workplace accommodation questions
• Review equal pay and pay equity developments in 2022
• Understand the current legal landscape for sexual assault and harassment in the workplace
• Develop strategies for litigating and responding to retaliation and whistleblower claims

Special Features

• All new panels: "Preparing for the Post-Pandemic Workplace" and “Employee Speech: What’s Protected and What’s Not?”
• Earn up to one full hour Ethics credit
• Earn up to one full hour of Diversity/Inclusion or Elimination of Bias credit depending on your jurisdiction
• Transitional credit available, including up to 1.5 hours of Professional Skills credit

Who Should Attend

This program is designed for private practitioners, in-house counsel, and human resources and other business professionals who seek an in-depth analysis and discussion of often subtle and rapidly evolving issues arising in employment law.

Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program.

• Opening Remarks* [00:08:16]
  Amy L. Bess, Jill L. Rosenberg
• Federal Regulatory Update [01:17:59]
  Robert S. Whitman, Jennifer Abruzzo, Maya Raghu, Jocelyn Samuels
• “Need to Know” 2022 Wage and Hour Developments [01:01:32]
  Michele R. Fisher, Joseph K. Mulherin
• 2022 Workplace Investigations [01:17:39]
  Eric Eichenholtz, Keisha-Ann G. Gray, Melissa S. Woods
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Legal Workplace [01:01:49]
  Jill L. Rosenberg, Kelly M. Dermody, Yolanda Hawkins-Bautista, Christopher B. Wilkinson
• Equal Pay/Pay Equity Issues in 2022 [01:01:33]
  Erin M. Connell, Amira Day Dallafior, Cara E. Greene
• Employee Speech: What’s Protected; What’s Not? [01:16:53]
  Dennis P. Duffy, Valdi Licul, Andrea H. Stempel
• Preparing for the Post-Pandemic Workplace [01:31:20]
  Amy L. Bess, Elizabeth N. Hall, Gracie C. Wright, Lisa Orr, CPE
• Gender Issues in the 2022 Workplace [01:15:56]
  Jessica Golden Cortes, Melissa R. Gold, Alexis Ronickher
• Preventing and Managing Retaliation and Whistleblower Claims [00:59:58]
  Jonathan Ben-Asher, Louis P. DiLorenzo, Jamie M. Kohen
• Leaves of Absence and Workplace Accommodation: Your 2022 Questions Answered [01:30:57]
  Sara E. Elder, Devjani H. Mishra, Laura S. Schnell
• Conflicts Between Lawyers and Their Clients: Key Issues [01:01:54]
  Thomas E. Spahn

The purchase price of this Web Program includes the following articles from the Course Handbook available online:

• Complete Course Handbook
• U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, Directive (DIR) 2022-02 (Effective March 31, 2022)
  Robert S. Whitman
• U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, Directive (DIR) 2022-01 (Effective March 15, 2022)
  Robert S. Whitman
• Office of the NLRB General Counsel, Memorandum from Jennifer A. Abruzzo, General Counsel, to All Regional Directors, Officers-in-Charge, and Resident Officers, GC 22-06, Update on Efforts to Secure Full Remedies in Settlements (June 23, 2022)
  Robert S. Whitman
• Office of the NLRB General Counsel, Memorandum from Jennifer A. Abruzzo, General Counsel, to All Regional Directors, Officers-in-Charge, and Resident Officers, GC 22-04, The Right to Refrain from Captive Audience and Other Mandatory Meetings (April 7, 2022)
  Robert S. Whitman
• Office of the NLRB General Counsel, Memorandum from Jennifer A. Abruzzo, General Counsel, to All Regional Directors, Officers-in-Charge, and Resident Officers, GC 22-03, Inter-agency Coordination (February 10, 2022)
  Robert S. Whitman
• Office of the NLRB General Counsel, Memorandum from Jennifer A. Abruzzo, General Counsel, to All Regional Directors, Officers-in-Charge, and Resident Officers, GC 22-02, Seeking 10(j) Injunctions in Response to Unlawful Threats or Other Coercion during Union Organizing Campaigns (February 1, 2022)
  Robert S. Whitman
• Office of the NLRB General Counsel, Memorandum from Jennifer A. Abruzzo, General Counsel, to All Regional Directors, Officers-in-Charge, and Resident Officers, GC 21-06, Seeking Full Remedies (September 8, 2021)
  Robert S. Whitman
• Office of the NLRB General Counsel, Memorandum from Peter Sung Ohr, Acting General Counsel, to All Regional Directors, Officers-in-Charge, and Resident Officers, GC 21-03, Effectuation of the National Labor Relations Act through Vigorous Enforcement of the Mutual Aid or Protection and Inherently Concerted Doctrines (March 31, 2021)
  Robert S. Whitman
• Office of the NLRB General Counsel, Memorandum from Peter Sung Ohr, Acting General Counsel, to All Regional Directors, Officers-in-Charge, and Resident Officers, GC 21-02, Rescission of Certain General Counsel Memoranda (February 1, 2021)
  Robert S. Whitman
• Wage & Hour Case Law Update
  Joseph K. Mulherin,Michele R. Fisher
• Best Practices for Effective Workplace Investigations (July 2022)
  Eric Eichenholtz,Keisha-Ann G. Gray,Melissa S. Woods
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Legal Workplace: What Have We Learned
  Kelly M. Dermody
• Christopher B. Wilkinson and Miranda Devereux, Diversity Initiatives: Legal Landscape and Recent Developments
  Christopher B. Wilkinson
• Erin M. Connell and Necia Hobbes, The Current State of Pay and Workplace Equity (July 2022)
  Erin M. Connell
• Comparing the Equal Pay Protections of Title VII to the Equal Pay Act and New York’s Labor Law (Updated July 2022)
  Cara E. Greene
• Public Employee Free Speech Rights: Balancing the Employer’s and Employee’s Competing Interests
  Dennis P. Duffy
• Public Protests and Private Employment
  Valdi Licul
• Preparing for the Post-Pandemic Workplace (July 2022)
  Amy L. Bess,Elizabeth N. Hall,Gracie C. Wright,Lisa Orr
• Narrowing of Health Benefits Accessibility, Push for Religious Exceptions to Transgender Workplace Rights and Pay Transparency, Predominant Themes in 2022 (July 2022)
  Jessica Golden Cortes
• Gender Issues in the 2022 Workplace
  Alexis Ronickher
• Whistleblowing Law Developments 2022 (July 20, 2022)
  Jonathan Ben-Asher
• Avoiding Liability in the Era of COVID-19 in 2022 for Retaliation Claims
  Louis P. DiLorenzo
• Disability Accommodation and COVID-19: Ten Emerging Issues to Consider, PLI Current: The Journal of PLI Press, Vol. 6 (2022)
  Devjani H. Mishra
• Conflicts between Lawyers and Their Client: Key Issues, Hypotheticals and Analyses (January 1, 2022)
  Thomas E. Spahn

Presentation Material

• Handout, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Resources
  Jocelyn Samuels
• PowerPoint, “Need to Know” 2022 Wage and Hour Developments
  Michele R. Fisher, Joseph K. Mulherin
• PowerPoint, 2022 Workplace Investigations
  Eric Eichenholtz, Keisha-Ann G. Gray, Melissa S. Woods
• PowerPoint, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Legal Workplace
  Kelly M. Dermody, Yolanda Hawkins-Bautista, Jill L. Rosenberg, Christopher B. Wilkinson
• PowerPoint, Equal Pay/Pay Equity Issues in 2022
  Erin M. Connell, Amira Day Dallafior, Cara E. Greene
• PowerPoint, Employee Speech: What’s Protected; What’s Not?
  Dennis P. Duffy, Valdi Licul, Andrea H. Stempel
• PowerPoint, Preparing for the Post-Pandemic Workplace
  Amy L. Bess, Elizabeth N. Hall, Lisa Orr, CPE, Gracie C. Wright
• PowerPoint, Gender Issues in the 2022 Workplace
  Jessica Golden Cortes, Melissa R. Gold, Alexis Ronickher
• PowerPoint, Leaves of Absence and Workplace Accommodation
  Sara E. Elder, Devjani H. Mishra, Laura S. Schnell

This two-day event offers a comprehensive review of case law and regulatory developments, an in-depth analysis of emerging issues, and best practices, designed to maximize employment law compliance, mitigate legal risk and achieve business objectives. The faculty is composed of nationally recognized management, union and plaintiffs’ attorneys, in-house counsel and government enforcement agency representatives who share their perspectives, insights and experiences.

What You Will Learn

• Analyze important federal and state case law and regulatory developments of the past year
• Evaluate hiring/retention challenges and solutions during the "Great Resignation"
• Identify need to know 2022 wage and hour developments
• Summarize best practices for conducting effective investigations in public and private sector workplaces
• Discuss answers to your difficult leaves of absence and workplace accommodation questions
• Review equal pay and pay equity developments in 2022
• Understand the current legal landscape for sexual assault and harassment in the workplace
• Develop strategies for litigating and responding to retaliation and whistleblower claims

Special Features

• All new panels: "Preparing for the Post-Pandemic Workplace" and “Employee Speech: What’s Protected and What’s Not?”
• Earn up to one full hour Ethics credit
• Earn up to one full hour of Diversity/Inclusion or Elimination of Bias credit depending on your jurisdiction
• Transitional credit available, including up to 1.5 hours of Professional Skills credit