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Can You Keep a Secret?

From trade secrets like product recipes and algorithms to confidential details about financing, customers and costs, all businesses have information that could be devastating if it were to fall into a competitor’s hands.

By attending this free seminar presented by our intellectual property experts, you will discover the ways employers must designate and guard proprietary information to ensure legal protection of this most critical asset.

Program Summary:

Join the Employment Law Group of Weintraub Genshlea Chediak Tobin & Tobin for an informative training session that will help employers and HR professionals gain a more thorough understanding of various wage and hour laws that often create liability when an employer gets them wrong.

Program Highlights:

• Brinker Restaurant Corporation v. Superior Court
  • Yes it’s true — we really are going to have a decision from the California Supreme Court this April.

Program Summary:

Join the Employment Law Group of Weintraub Genshlea Chediak Tobin & Tobin for an informative training session that will help employers and HR professionals gain a more thorough understanding of various wage and hour laws that often create liability when an employer gets them wrong.

Program Highlights:

• Brinker Restaurant Corporation v. Superior Court
  • Yes it’s true — we really are going to have a decision from the California Supreme Court this April.

American Health Lawyers Association, Institute on Medicare and Medicaid Payment Issues Conference, Fundamentals of Provider Enrollment.

When: March 28–30, 2012

Where: Baltimore, Maryland.

American Bar Association’s Health Law Section, National Webinar, Medicare’s Revalidation Requirements: Update on Enrollment Procedures for Providers and Suppliers.

When: March 15, 2012

Where: Webinar

Download: Effective Employment Policies-Are Yours Up To Date.pdf

Program Summary:

Join the Employment Law Group of Weintraub Genshlea Chediak Tobin & Tobin for an informative training session that will help business owners, human resource professionals, and managers with two of the most important defensive measures a company can have: (1) creating effective and compliant workplace policies; and (2) properly training supervisors in implementing them.

Program Highlights:

• Understanding what employment laws govern your workplace and complying with them when creating your policies.

Download: Flyer – Pregnancy Leave.pdf

Program Summary:

Join the Employment Law Group of Weintraub Genshlea Chediak Tobin & Tobin for an informative and up-to-date discussion about the rights and obligations of pregnant employees.

Program Highlights:

1. Pregnancy Disability Leave (PDL)
   • What is it?
   • Which employers are covered?
   • When is an employee eligible?
   • How should employers administer the leave?

Download: 2012 List of Seminars.pdf

The employment group at Weintraub Genshlea Chediak Tobin and Tobin is pleased to announce its updated schedule of informative seminars for 2012.

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

Summary of Program:

Join the attorneys from Weintraub Genshlea Chediak’s Employment Law Group for an exhilarating morning (ok … that’s code for an adrenaline — charged; white – knuckle morning) as they review the complexities of a number of new laws facing employers in 2012, and discuss important case law developments from 2011.

Program Highlights:

• Wage and Hour
  • The New “Wage Theft Prevention Act of 2011”
  • Written Commission Agreements
  • Brinker: The Wait is Almost Over
• The consequences of misclassifying employees as independent contractors
• Discrimination and Retaliation
  • The expansion of the definition of “Gender” under FEHA
  • Protection of “Genetic Information”
• Disability Accommodations
• Sexual Harassment
• Privacy
• Leaves of Absence
  • New obligations under California’s “Pregnancy Disability Leave” law
• Policies and Contracts
  • Various new laws require employers to update their policies.

Download: Flyer – 2011 Year in Review- 2012 A Tough Year Ahead (rev) (1420455).pdf

Join the attorneys from Weintraub Genshlea Chediak’s Employment Law Group for an exhilarating morning (ok … that’s code for an adrenaline — charged; white – knuckle morning) as they review the complexities of a number of new laws facing employers in 2012, and discuss important case law developments from 2011.

Program Highlights:

• Wage and Hour
  • The New “Wage Theft Prevention Act of 2011”
  • Written Commission Agreements
  • Brinker: The Wait is Almost Over
• The consequences of misclassifying employees as independent contractors
• Discrimination and Retaliation
  • The expansion of the definition of “Gender” under FEHA
  • Protection of “Genetic Information”
• Disability Accommodations
• Sexual Harassment
• Privacy
• Leaves of Absence
  • New obligations under California’s “Pregnancy Disability Leave” law
• Policies and Contracts
  • Various new laws require employers to update their policies.