Are Your Prepared for 2016? Protect Yourself from Litigation.

Hopkins & Carley is once again pleased to present a summary of the new laws and legal developments from the past year that we believe will have the greatest impact on employers in 2016. Please join us for our seminar on recent developments in employment law, which will include discussions of new laws and judicial decisions relating to:

• Discrimination and harassment – the new California Fair Pay Act, the Pao v. Kleiner Perkins case, EEOC Guidance on Access for Transgender Workers, AB 622’s prohibition of the use of E-Verify, and more
• Leaves of absence and reasonable accommodation – California’s new paid sick leave law, court decisions regarding reasonable accommodation, amendments to CFRA regulations, and more
• Wage and hour developments – court decisions regarding rest breaks and counting sleep time as work; the rapid increase in pay stub violation claims; legislation regarding piece-rate compensation; increase in the minimum wage, and more
• Arbitration and class actions – an overview of recent court decisions regarding the enforceability of arbitration agreements and circumstances in which arbitration awards can be corrected
• NLRB developments – the latest guidance and decisions from the NLRB on social media, confidentiality agreements and “concerted action” issues

Who Should attend:

• Business Owners
• Human Resource Managers
• Retail Manager
• Anyone with employees or contract workers
  

		Daniel F. Pyne Dan Pyne is the co-chair of Hopkins & Carley’s Employment Law Department. Dan advises and represents employers in a wide variety of matters, including wrongful discharge, discrimination and harassment, wage and hour matters, leaves of absence, unfair competition and employee mobility (covenants not to compete and not to solicit), development and implementation of employment policies and procedures, and avoidance of litigation. Dan has served as lead counsel for his clients in both state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels. Dan’s clients include businesses, non-profit organizations and executives. Many of his clients operate in the technology industry, but others are engaged in manufacturing, professional services and agriculture.
		Karen Reinhold Karen Reinhold specializes in representing employers, executives and occasionally employees, on employment-related matters. She is the Co-Chair of Hopkins & Carley’s Employment Law Department. Karen served for fifteen years as in-house employment and trial counsel for a large publicly traded corporation and also practiced law for many years with a large multinational law firm. In addition to providing advice and counsel on a broad range of employment-related legal issues, Karen has extensive experience as a trial lawyer, having successfully tried many employment or employment-related cases to jury verdict in state and federal court. Karen’s current practice involves advice and counsel, as well as litigation and trial, regarding the following matters: employee mobility and restrictive covenants, trade secrets, unfair Business practices, wage and hour practices, discrimination and wrongful termination, sexual harassment, and employment contracts
		Ernest Malaspina Ernie served as the Chair of Hopkins & Carley’s Litigation Department for over 10 years, and is currently a member of its Employment Law Department. Ernie advises private and public sector employers on a wide range of employment issues, including: hiring practices, employment policies and procedures, wage and hour compliance, employee discipline, discrimination and harassment, retaliation, wrongful discharge, unfair competition and protection of trade secrets, and effective strategies to avoid litigation. In addition to advice and counsel activities, Ernie represents clients in the litigation of a wide range of complex employment disputes involving claims of wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, employee embezzlement, breach of contract, as well as single plaintiff and class action wage and hour controversies, among other disputes.