Maddin Hauser’s 2018 Employment Law Symposium

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Featured Topics and Agenda:

Managing Unemployment Liability and Responding to Claims for Benefits

• Disputing claims for unemployment insurance benefits
• Managing employee departures and risks for claims
• Business transactions and unemployment taxes

Termination of Employment: Respecting Employees and Protecting Employers
Kaitlin A. Brown

• When and how to end the employment relationship
• Statutory obligations and risks for potential legal exposure upon termination
• How severance packages protect employers and ease the transition for employees

Hiring the Right People the Right Way: A Guide to Onboarding Employees

• Documents that new employees must complete
• Acts that expose employers to potential liability during the application, interview, and onboarding process
• Strategies to protect employers and mitigate potential liability

Employee Performance Management: Successfully Implementing Employee Development Processes
Michelle C. Harrell

• Integration of development programs as a key factor in employee success and retention
• You can pull a sprout – coaching and mentoring for success
• The role of documentation – carrot or stick?

Surviving an I-9 Inspection Conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
John A. MacKenzie

• Overview of the I-9 inspection process
• Compliance with employment eligibility and verification requirements
• Mitigating and defending a post-inspection fine from ICE

Workplace Training: The Importance of Employee Education as a Preventative Measure

• Implementing training for employees, managers, and executives
• Mandated versus recommended training in the #metoo era
• Best practices and benefits of documenting the training process

Managing Leave Issues while Navigating the Overlap between FMLA, ADA, GINA, Workers Compensation and Leave Policies

• Learn from mistakes made by other employers and recent case law
• Reduce employer liability by understanding best practices that account for overlapping legal obligations
• Audit current procedures to implement change

Protecting Organizational Good Will and Business Assets
Ronald A. Sollish

• Utilizing non-competition and non-solicitation restraints
• Protecting confidential/proprietary information
• Protecting ideas, inventions and intellectual assets