Employment Law Update: Issues in a Depressed Economy

On Feburary 11, 2009, Employment attorneys Jeanine DeBacker and David Goldman presented this program to explain new laws and regulations that will affect employers in the coming year. The seminar was held in Wendel Rosen's David I. Wendel Conference Center. Program topics included:

• Plant Closings and Mass Layoffs – Legal requirements imposed by WARN and Cal-WARN
• Severance Pay – The do's and don'ts in preparing legal releases for departing employees
• Non-Competition Agreements – The impact of the 2008 California Supreme Court decision
• Meal and Rest Periods – Recent case law developments and how they impact employer
• Family and Medical Leave – New regulations go into effect January 16, 200
• ADA – New disability regulations that affect California employers
• Bay Area Employment Law – Receive a summary of new employment laws that affect local employers
• Obama Administration – Learn how proposed legislation would make it easier for unions to organize

Written materials were provided at the program.

This program was designed to alert human resource managers, payroll professionals, executives, owners, supervisors and managers who have responsibility over personnel and employee benefit matters.