Events

For employers, are social networking sites Happy or Sad?

Summary of Program

Employees use networking sites to communicate with one another (as well as current and potential customers). They post their daily thoughts and activities, upload photos and, occasionally, adversely impact ther employers’ buusiness. What can an employer do to protect itself without intruding on employee rights?

Some of the topics to be discussed include:

• Employer’s use of employee’s social media information versus the employee’s right to privacy.
• Protection of employer’s Confidential and Proprietary Information.
• Potential employer liability for employee’s on-line conduct.
• The importance of effective Electronic Use and Social Media policies.

Location

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

Parking validation provided – please park in the Wells Fargo Center garage

Seminar Program

8:30 a.m. Registration and Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Seminar

Approved for 3.0 hours MCLE credit;
HRCI credits available upon request.

There is no charge for this seminar.

RSVP

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

Download: Sexual Harassment Prevention.pdf

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; and
• practical and inter-active hypotheticals and examples to help illustrate what 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.

Training Program:

Thursday, December 6, 2012

9:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast

9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Training

Charge: $50.00 per supervisor

Location:

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

Parking validation provided. Please park in the Wells Fargo Center parking garage.

RSVP

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

Download: Tips when Hiring and Firing.pdf

Summary of Program

The Labor and Employment Group at Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin is pleased to offer this very informative training session 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.

Some of the topics to be discussed include:

• Effective hiring practices.
• What can you ask during an interview?
• An employer’s right to discipline employees; is it limited?
• Effective policies, training and documentation to reduce liability.
• Beware of “Progressive Discipline” policies.
• 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?
• Who is a “whistleblower” and under what law?
• Can an “at-will” employee be wrongfully terminated?
• What constitutes “wrongful termination?”

 

Lunchtime Webinar:

This program is available only via webinar.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

HRCI credits available upon successful completion and verification of attendance for duration of webinar.

There is no charge for this webinar.

RSVP

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

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

Please join the attorneys from Weintraub Tobin’s Employment Law Group as they review new laws facing employers for the upcoming 2013 year, and discuss important case law developments from 2012.

Dates:

January 17,2013 – Sacramento

January 31,2013 – San Francisco

More details to follow. Please register now as seating will be limited.

RSVP:

Ramona Carrillo

Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin

400 Capitol Mall, Floor 11

Sacramento, CA 95814

Phone: 916.558.6046

Fax: 916.446.1611

[email protected]

 

Summary of Program

Join the attorneys from Weintraub Tobin’s Labor and Employment Group as they discuss important legal developments from 2012 and review the complexities of a number of new laws facing employers in 2013.

Program Highlights:

• Wage and Hour Law: New Legislation Makes Compliance Harder Than Ever;
• Discrimination and Retaliation: New Protected Activities and Regulatory Crackdowns;
• Privacy: Social Media and Beyond;
• Developments in Leaves of Absence and Accommodation Law;
• Policies and Contracts: What’s Required and What’s Prohibited; and
• The NLRB’s Attack on the Non-Union Workplace.

This seminar is available either in person or via webinar! If attending via WEBINAR, you will receive login information one week prior to the seminar.

Thursday, January 17, 2013

9:00 a.m – 12:00 p.m.

400 Capitol Mall, Floor 11

Sacramento, CA 95814

Registration Breakfast

8:30 a.m.

Program

9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

There is no charge for this seminar

Approved for 3 hours MCLE Credit; HRCI credits available upon request

RSVP:

Ramona Carrillo
Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin
400 Capitol Mall, 11th Floor
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916.558.6046
Fax: 916.446.1611
[email protected]

Parking validation provided. Please park in the Wells Fargo parking garage.

Summary of Program

Join the attorneys from Weintraub Tobin’s Labor and Employment Group as they discuss important legal developments from 2012 and review the complexities of a number of new laws facing employers in 2013.

Program Highlights:

• Wage and Hour Law: New Legislation Makes Compliance Harder Than Ever;
• Discrimination and Retaliation: New Protected Activities and Regulatory Crackdowns
• Privacy: Social Media and Beyond;
• Developments in Leaves of Absence and Accommodation Law;
• Policies and Contracts: What’s Required and What’s Prohibited; and
• The NLRB’s Attack on the Non-Union Workplace.

This seminar is available either in person or via webinar! If attending via WEBINAR, you will receive login information one week prior to the seminar.

Thursday, January 17, 2013

9:00 a.m – 12:00 p.m.

475 Sansome Street, Suite 1800

San Francisco, CA 94111

Registration Breakfast

8:30 a.m.

Program

9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

There is no charge for this seminar

Approved for 3 hours MCLE Credit; HRCI credits available upon request

RSVP:

Ramona Carrillo
Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin
400 Capitol Mall, 11th Floor
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916.558.6046
Fax: 916.446.1611
[email protected]

Download: 2013 List of L E Seminars-Training (1577243).PDF

The employment group at Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin is pleased to announce its updated schedule of informative seminars for 2013.

Click on the link above to download the schedule. (Adobe Reader required).

Summary of Program

Most employers know that employees may need to be accommodated from time to time for various reasons, most commonly due to an employee’s disability or medical condition. However, it is important for employers to understand and comply with how the courts and various federal and state regulatory agencies define accommodations, as well as learn what an employer’s rights and obligations are regarding:

• Engaging in the interactive process
• Providing reasonable accommodations

Program Highlights

This informative seminar will cover the many accommodations employers and HR Professionals may be forced to consider, who should be accommodated, and how to engage in an interactive process to determine an appropriate accommodation. Topics will include:

• How to determine who is entitled to an accommodation;
• How to engage in the interactive process and how to know when to initiate the initial discussion;
• The various protected classes and/or activities entitling an employee to an accommodation—including things like disability, religion, and illiteracy, to name a few;
• How to effectively document the accommodation; and
• Recent developments in accommodation law.

Seminar Program

9:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast

9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Seminar

Approved for 2 hours MCLE credit; HRCI credits available upon request.

There is no charge for this seminar.

RSVP

Ramona Carrillo

400 Capitol Mall, 11th Fl.

Sacramento, CA 95814

916.558.6046

[email protected]

Download: Flyer – Independent Contractor v. Employee (1580548).pdf

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;
• The federal Department of Labor’s $25 million “Misclassification Initiative” designed to work closely with state agencies to investigate misclassifications and take enforcement action; 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!

Seminar Program

9:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast

9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Seminar

Approved for 2 hours MCLE credit; HRCI credits available upon request.

There is no charge for this seminar.

RSVP

Ramona Carrillo

400 Capitol Mall, 11th Fl.

Sacramento, CA 95814

916.558.6046

[email protected]