Event Details

POSTPONED UNTIL FALL.

Networking:  5:30 - 6:15 pm
Dinner: 6:15 - 7:30 pm
Program:  7:30 - 8:30 pm

Speaker:                                        

Jason Reisman

Topic:  The Trump Administration Employment Regulation:  Employer Friendly Or Fake News?

Description:

This presentation will discuss developments and hot topics in HR and employment law taking place at or through the federal agencies under the Trump Administration.  We’ll evaluate the past under the Trump administration, while also providing some insight and thoughts about what the future holds in the employment regulatory realm.  Clearly, predictability has been difficult.  We’ll do our best to provide guidance and “predictions” to help you navigate the world of employment law in 2020 and beyond.  Below is a brief list of some of the questions we’ll entertain: 

1.      Will The Department Of Labor And Wage And Hour Issues Remain On Center Stage?

a.    Some new leadership has arrived, but has it (or will it) change the direction of the DOL?  Or has it simply stayed the course?  Has the DOL called off the dogs of enforcement and changed its focus?  Is there (more) relief ahead for employers?

b.   The last dozen years have been banner years for wage and hour claims.  They have grown exponentially, but will that continue? 

c.    As everyone knows, during the last year of the Obama Administration, the DOL sought to take over the conversation by ramping up the minimum salary level to be exempt from the minimum wage and overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.  Where does that stand, and how has the Trump Administration taken on that issue and other regulatory items? 

2.     The NLRB – Is It Finally Headed Back In The “Right” Direction? 

a.    With new members of the NLRB finally seated and a new general counsel in place, do employers like the direction of the agency now?  How about for the foreseeable future?  How do things work at the NLRB anyway?  Has the NLRB re-balanced its priorities to be more balanced towards employers?

b.    With unions across the country seemingly less powerful and less active, the NLRB had shifted its focus somewhat to the non-union workplaces, hammering employers across the country for purported unlawful policy implementation and subsequent employee discipline and discharges based upon those policies.   Has that focus shifted, or begun to shift, back to the unionized workforce?

3.     Will Our Employment World Become More Or Less Complicated?  The EEOC And Beyond.

a.   For nearly eight years under the Obama Administration, employers across the country faced numerous impediments to, and complications for, successful employee relations.  Has there been more, or at least continued, heavy regulation of employers?  Or, as President Trump promised, less?  How is the trend filtering out to cities and states across the U.S.? 

b.   Has the legal protection of LGBTQ individuals in the workplace finally arrived on a federal level?  Will it continue to be a priority and, if so, for who?

c.   What does the near future hold for the proliferation of discrimination claims?  What will the new trends be:  more race-based claims, or those alleging religious bias?  Will retaliation continue to be the “scariest” of all such claims?    

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