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Summary of Program

The Labor and Employment Group at Weintraub Tobin is pleased to offer this very informative training session that will help business owners, human resource professionals, and managers to both comply with legal record keeping requirements and also prepare and maintain effective defensive documentation.

Program Highlights

• Postings, notices, and document retention under various federal and state laws.
• Effective employment policies and other documents relating to the employment relationship (e.g. arbitration, confidentiality and proprietary information, and severance & release agreements).
• The documents an employee’s attorney will likely rely on in an employment lawsuit and the importance of creating good contemporaneous documentation so as to avoid producing damaging evidence later:
  • Wage and hour documentation
  • Investigation documentation
  • Attendance and leave of absence documentation
  • Training documentation
  • Performance documentation
  • Discipline and termination documentation

Seminar Program
9:30 am- 11:30 am – Seminar

Webinar: This seminar is also available via webinar. Please indicate in your RSVP if you will be attending via webinar. 

Approved for two (2) hours MCLE.  This program will be submitted to the HR Certification Institute for review.  Certificates will be provided upon verification of attendance.

Location

Weintraub Tobin
400 Capitol Mall, 11th Floor
Sacramento, CA 95814

Parking Validation provided. Please park in the Wells Fargo parking garage, entrances on 4th and 5th Street.

RSVP
Ramona Carrillo
400 Capitol Mall, 11th Fl.
Sacramento, CA 95814
916.558.6046 | [email protected]

There is no charge for this seminar.

Summary of Program

The Labor and Employment Group at Weintraub Tobin is pleased to offer this informative seminar that will discuss recent cases to help business owners, human resource professionals, and managers avoid liability and effectively hire employees as well as carry out disciplines and terminations.

Program Highlights

• Training your supervisors to be your best defense.
• Effective hiring practices.
• What can you ask during an interview?
• Should you review an applicant’s social media before making a hiring decision?
• An employer’s right to discipline employees; is it limited?
• Effective policies and documentation to reduce liability.
• Beware of “Progressive Discipline”
• Did the employee quit or was [s]he “constructively terminated?” (What does that mean?)
• What type of conduct can constitute “retaliation” and under what law?
• Can an “at-will” employee be wrongfully terminated?
• What constitutes “wrongful termination?”

Seminar Program

9:00 am – 9:30 am – Breakfast & Registration
9:30 am- 11:30 am – Seminar

Webinar: This seminar is also available via webinar. Please indicate in your RSVP if you will be attending via webinar. 

Approved for two (2) hours MCLE.  This program will be submitted to the HR Certification Institute for review.  Certificates will be provided upon verification of attendance.

Location

Weintraub Tobin
400 Capitol Mall, 11th Floor
Sacramento, CA 95814

Parking Validation provided. Please park in the Wells Fargo parking garage, entrances on 4th and 5th Street.

RSVP
Ramona Carrillo
400 Capitol Mall, 11th Fl.
Sacramento, CA 95814
916.558.6046 | [email protected]

Summary of Program

Employee handbooks are essential for employers in today’s litigious environment. A carefully prepared, up-to-date, and customized handbook can be an employer’s biggest weapon against labor and employment litigation if properly used. This informative seminar will outline the dos and don’ts in drafting an effective and well written employee handbook. You will receive specialized advice on the employee handbook that is right for your business needs.

Program Highlights

• Why is an employee handbook necessary for your business?
• What are the key disclaimers and qualifiers every employee handbook should contain?
• Phrases and terms that you should never use in an employee handbook.
• A discussion of important policies to include in any employee handbook, such as wage and hour policies, anti-discrimination, harassment, and retaliation policies, employee privacy and workplace technology policies, employee expectations of conduct policies, and more.
• A discussion of mandatory policies based on the size of a business, such as FMLA/CFRA and other leave policies.
• A discussion of discretionary policies, such as vacation, sick leave, holidays, and more.

Seminar Program

9:00 am – Registration and Breakfast
9:30 am – 11:30 am – Seminar

Approved for two (2) hours MCLE.  This program will be submitted to the HR Certification Institute for review.  Certificates will be provided upon verification of attendance.

There is no charge for this seminar.

Location
Weintraub Tobin
475 Sansome Street, Suite 1800
San Francisco, CA 94111

Parking Validation provided.

RSVP
Ramona Carrillo
400 Capitol Mall, 11th Fl.
Sacramento, CA 95814
916.558.6046 | [email protected]

*This is an in-person session only. Not available via webinar. 

Summary of Program

Companies and their employees widely use social media in their daily business activities.  These networking sites are used by employees to communicate with one another as well as current and potential customers.  However, the use of social media may occasionally adversely impact an employer’s business or present other legal risks.  What should an employer do to protect itself without intruding on an employee’s rights?

Program Highlights

• Employer’s use of employee’s social media information versus the employee’s right to privacy.
• Protection of employer’s confidential and proprietary information.
• Ramifications of B.Y.O.D. policies.
• Potential employer liability for employee’s online conduct.
• The importance of effective Electronic Use and Social media policies.
• Legal limits for employee use of social media in the workplace.

Seminar Program

9:00 am – Registration and Breakfast
9:30 am – 11:30 am – Seminar

Approved for two (2) hours MCLE.  This program will be submitted to the HR Certification Institute for review.  Certificates will be provided upon verification of attendance for the entirety of the webcast. 

There is no charge for this seminar.

Location
Weintraub Tobin
400 Capitol Mall, 11th Fl.
Sacramento, CA 95814

Parking Validation provided.  Please park in the Wells Fargo parking garage, entrances on 4th and 5th Street.

RSVP
Ramona Carrillo
400 Capitol Mall, 11th Fl.
Sacramento, CA 95814
916.558.6046 | [email protected]

Webinar:  This seminar is also available via webinar.  Please indicate in your RSVP if you will be attending via webinar.

Federal and state OSHA laws protect California workers from unsafe working conditions.  However, the federal and state statutes and regulations are complex and can be difficult to understand.  This seminar is designed to remove some of the mystery from federal and state OSHA requirements and assist you in maintaining compliance.  In addition, new regulations require employers to train supervisors about bullying.  This webinar will explain those requirements.

Program Highlights

• Implement a compliant and effective Injury and Illness Prevention Plan (IIPP).
• Anti-bullying requirements.
• Avoid enormous Cal/OSHA fines and hassles by regularly assessing your organization’s IIPP, training your employees, and shoring up weaknesses in your safety practices.
• Better understand what OSHA regulations apply to your industry so you won’t be caught off guard if and when accidents occur.
• Use effective preventive measures to keep your employees and customers safe from threats of workplace violence.
• Recognize the warning signs that indicate an employee is capable of violence and how to respond.

Date and Time

This informative session will take place via webinar only.

Thursday, July 16, 2015
9:30 am – 11:00 am

MCLE credits available upon request.  This program will be submitted to the HR Certification Institute for review.  Certificates will be provided upon verification of attendance for the entirety of the webcast.

RSVP
Ramona Carrillo
400 Capitol Mall, 11th Floor
Sacramento, CA  95814
916.558.6046
[email protected]

*Information on registering and logging in to this webinar will be provided after you have RSVP’d and approximately one week prior to the session. 

Summary of Program

Join the attorneys from Weintraub Tobin’s Workplace Investigations Unit (Beth West, Vida Thomas, and Meagan Bainbridge) as they discuss the fundamentals of an effective workplace investigation.

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Summary of Program:
The regulations regarding California’s Mandatory Sexual Harassment Prevention Training for supervisors require that certain employers provide training to their supervisors every two years.

The Labor and Employment Group at Weintraub Tobin is offering a two hour in-person training session that will comply with all the requirements outlined in the regulations, including things like:

• an overview of sexual harassment laws;
• examples of conduct that constitute sexual harassment;
• lawful supervisory responses to complaints of harassment in the workplace;
• strategies to prevent harassment in the workplace;
• AB 2054 – training on the prevention of “abusive conduct” in the workplace; and
• practical and interactive hypotheticals and examples to help illustrate what bullying, sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation can look like.

If you are an employer with 50 or more employees, and have supervisors who have not yet been trained, this training is a must. We look forward to hearing from you and helping you comply with your continuing sexual harassment training obligations.

Seminar Program

9:00 a.m. Registration
9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Training

Charge: $75.00 per Supervisor.

Locations

San Francisco – May 27, 2015
Weintraub Tobin
475 Sansome Street, Suite 1800
San Francisco, CA 94111

Sacramento – Thursday, May 28, 2015
Weintraub Tobin
400 Capitol Mall, 11th Floor
Sacramento, CA 95814

Newport Beach – Thursday, June 4, 2015
Real Office Centers
23 Corporate Plaza Drive
Newport Beach, CA 92660

RSVP
Ramona Carrillo
400 Capitol Mall, 11th Floor
Sacramento, CA 95814
916.558.6046 | [email protected]

Summary of Program

The risks involved in misclassifying a worker as an independent contractor rather than an employee have always been serious. A number of federal and state agencies regulate the proper classification of workers and have the authority to impose significant monetary and non-monetary sanctions against employers who get the classification wrong.

Program Highlights:

This informative webinar will cover the legal landscape of independent contractor status. Topics will include:

• A summary of the various tests applied by federal and state agencies to determine independent contractor status;
• A summary of the enforcement authority of various federal and state agencies and the sanctions they may impose on employers;
• The due diligence employers must engage in before classifying a worker as an independent contractor; and
• California’s law imposing monetary and non-monetary sanctions against employers (and certain individuals) who willfully misclassify workers as independent contractors.

If you or your company is currently using independent contractors, this is a webinar you cannot afford to miss. Register today!

Webinar

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

MCLE Credits available upon request. This program will be submitted to the HR Certification Institute for Review. Certificates will be provided upon verification of attendance for the entirety of the webcast.

RSVP

Ramona Carrillo
400 Capitol Mall, 11th Floor
Sacramento, Ca 95814
916.558.6046
[email protected]

Summary of Program

The ever increasing number of claims filed with the Department of Labor and California Labor Commissioner for unpaid overtime, and the increasing number of wage and hour class action lawsuit, highlight the importance of correctly classifying employees as exempt or non-exempt. This seminar is designed to help employers and HR professionals gain more through understanding of the various exemptions available under California law and learn how to conduct a legally strong exemption analysis.

Program Highlights

• A discussion of the exemptions available.
• Checklists for determining if your employees are exempt.
• How to conduct a self-audit to ensure that employees are properly classified.
• What to do if your employees have been misclassified.

Seminar Program

9:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast
9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Seminar

Approved for 2 hours MCLE credit. This program will be submitted to the HR Certification Institute for review.
There is no charge for this seminar.

Location
Weintraub Tobin
400 Capitol Mall, 11th Fl.Sacramento, CA 95814

RSVP
Ramona Carrillo
400 Capitol Mall, 11th Fl.
Sacramento, CA 95814
916.558.6046 | [email protected]

Avoiding Common Pitfalls in the Management of Employee Leaves

Since the enactment of the FMLA over 20 years ago, employee leaves have grown exponentially – in the kinds of leaves offered and in the complexity of administration requirements.  While compliance is a fundamental goal in this area, managing employee leaves effectively requires more than adherence to regulations.  Savvy employers realize that practices like education and training of supervisors, open channels of communication with employees, and leave and attendance policies that are clearly articulated and consistently enforced, are essential.

Time:
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Location:
Hilton Alexandria Center
Washington, DC

Speakers:
Scott Plamondon, JD
Shareholder, Weintraub Tobin