1. law, govt and politics

Latest and Not So Greatest News from the NLRB (Patrick Jones)
Learn how changes in NLRB rules and recent case decisions will streamline the union
election procedures. The NLRB has also made a push to change the joint employer
definition, which could result in an erosion of the franchise business model and the
level at which staffing decisions are made. Learn how the NLRB could find liability
with language found in your employee handbooks, including ambiguous language
and confidentiality provisions on investigations. We will discuss specific policies
scrutinized by the NLRB and how to minimize risk through internal reviews of your
handbook.
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OMAHA, NE
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Honolulu, HI
PRSRT STD
U.S. POSTAGE
P.O. Box 0578
Boys Town, NE 68010-0578
APA (American Payroll Association)
7.0 RPHs
Investigations: Tips and Strategies (Darin Leong)
Workplace investigations have risks and require judgment calls about what issues to
investigate, who to include, and ultimately who to believe. Discuss tips for conducting effective workplace investigations and steps employers can take to limit liability
both prior to and during an investigation.
FORUM
honolulu, hi
HRCI 7.0 HRs Approved
Social Media: Who’s in the Know (Darin Leong)
Social media may be limitless in possibilities, but many of those possibilities are
fraught with legal risk for employers. When can – or should – an employer utilize
social media in making hiring decisions? Discipline or discharge decisions? When
does an employer run afoul of employees’ privacy rights? This session will explore
these issues and will discuss effective and lawful social media policies and practices.
2015 labor & employment law
January 8, 2015
Credits
Daunting Disability Leave Management Issues (Christopher Yeh)
Think you already possess an advance working knowledge of the Americans with
Disabilities Act and the Family Medical Leave Act? You might want to think again.
This area continues to challenge employers of all sizes and could cost your bottom
line if you fail to update your employees annually. We will also review the EEOC’s
recent pregnancy discrimination enforcement guidance and how to minimize risk of
liability.
Continuing Education
Wage and Hour Update: How to Stay Ahead of the Game (Christopher Cole)
As we wait for the Department of Labor to implement executive orders to update
regulations, we will explore what steps employers can take to prepare for what is
likely to be a dramatic expansion of wage and hour laws. We will analyze recent
enforcement initiatives regarding tip pooling, unpaid interns, and other hot issues.
Register at www.paramountseminar.com • Specials and early discounts are available on our website!
Hawaii Hot Topics and Employment Law Strategies (Sarah Wang)
In depth review of key state and federal legislative, administrative, and judicial developments that affect Hawaii employers, with an emphasis on several new Hawaii
statutes and significant judicial decisions in employment cases. This session will outline the 2014 Hawaii minimum wage increase, new EEOC guidance, and changes
affecting federal contractors.
January 8, 2015
LEARN:
2015 Labor & Employment law forum
What You Will
HR Professionals, Owners,
Presidents, Vice-Presidents,
Operations Managers, HR Directors, and
Human Resource Strategic Planners.
We provide the highest quality educational seminars throughout the
USA. While Paramount Seminars’
corporate headquarters is located
in Nebraska, we train today and tomorrow’s leaders in most gegraphic
locations in the United States. Our faculty members are experts in their field, not professional speakers that pretend to understand the topics. Our faculty work everyday within
the field and topic areas in which they are presenting and have passed very selective
criteria based on years of experience and knowledge within the field. Paramount Seminars focuses on interactive, hands-on learning methods, and real world examples all
within first class learning environments that help advance the attendees’ professional
growth and development. We understand it is not enough to simply listen, to that end,
we encourage communication from our attendees during the presentation to ensure a full
understanding of the material provided.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
WHO WE ARE
In 1995, the founding lawyers of Marr Jones & Wang left the
state’s two largest law firms to form what is now the largest law firm in
Hawaii devoted exclusively to the representation of management in labor
and employment law matters. Labor and employment law presents
unique issues and requires unique strategies; we believe employers are
best served by attorneys who have devoted their careers to this area of
law.
Clients of the firm include Fortune 500, mainland-based and
Hawaii companies in a range of sectors: airline, marine and other
transportation; banking and finance; construction; federal contractors;
retailers; manufacturing; hotels; entertainment and sports; agriculture,
and healthcare. Our attorneys have also represented the State of Hawaii
and its counties.
Employers call on our firm for assistance in all areas of labor and
employment law, from counseling and compliance to negotiations and
collective bargaining to litigation and other forms of dispute resolution.
Our lawyers have represented clients before both state and federal
administrative agencies, and before the highest courts in the nation.
Several partners have deep working knowledge of the National Labor
Relations
Board
and
the
National
Mediation
Board.
Each of our attorneys and paralegals has dedicated his or her
career to labor and employment law. With a breadth of experience
ranging from two to more than 30 years, our attorneys are able to
efficiently staff client projects, ranging from discrete legal questions to
complex employment litigation.
Our firm has been awarded an AV rating by Martindale-Hubbell,
the publishers of the national legal directory. This is the highest rating
awarded, and is based on legal ability and adherence to ethical standards
of practice. The firm is also listed in The Bar Register of Preeminent
Lawyers.Marr Jones & Wang is a member of and a resource for the Worklaw
Network, a nationwide affiliation of law firms that practice exclusively representing employers in labor and employment law. The network consists of
more than 25 law firms with more than 300 labor and employment attorneys
across the United States.
Our Seminar Agenda
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Hawaii Hot Topics and Employment Law Strategies (Sarah Wang)
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Wage and Hour Update: How to Stay Ahead of the Game
(Christopher Cole)
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM Break
10:45 AM -12:15 PM
Daunting Disability Leave Management Issues (Christopher Yeh)
Our Seminar FACULTY
Sarah O. Wang joined MJW in April 1998 and was made a partner in January 2001. She
has considerable experience in both employment litigation and training employ¬ers to
better manage their workforce. Ms. Wang represents management in a wide range of
labor and employment matters, including federal and state court litigation of wrongful
termination, harassment, reasonable accommodation, breach of contract, and other
employment claims; discrimination and harassment cases pending before administrative agencies; union arbitrations and airline System Boards of Adjustment; wage and
hour audits and other administrative proceedings; and federal and state appellate
cases. Ms. Wang also devotes a substantial amount of her practice to pro¬viding training and advising employers and their supervisory employees in managing personnel
issues and complying with various employment laws. She helps employers develop
and implement policies to effectively manage their workforce. Ms. Wang is a frequent
speaker at labor and employment law seminars on topics such as dis¬crimination and
harassment, employee privacy, internal investigations, reasonable accommodation
obligations, and wage and hour laws.
Ms. Wang is admitted to practice law in the state and federal courts in Hawaii, the
District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the United States Courts of Appeals for the
Ninth and D.C. Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court. Ms. Wang has been
selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America since the 2007 edition and
she has been listed in the Chambers USA directory, America’s Leading Lawyers for
Busi¬ness, since 2004.
Darin R. Leong represents management in a wide range of labor and employment matters, including federal and state court litigation of wrongful termination, harass¬ment,
reasonable accommodation, breach of contract/non-compete agreements, and other
employment claims; discrimination and harassment cases pending before administrative agencies; wage and hour compliance; and traditional labor matters such as
collective bargaining, labor arbitrations and unfair labor practice charges. Mr. Leong
also conducts workplace investigations on behalf of employers and provides counseling and training for employers and their supervisory employees to manage personnel
issues and comply with various employment laws.
Prior to joining MJW in January 2007, Mr. Leong practiced labor and employment law
at Proskauer Rose LLP in New York City. Mr. Leong is a graduate of Pomona College
and received his law degree from New York University. He is licensed to practice in the
states of Hawaii and New York. Mr. Leong is a recipient of the 2011 Pacific Busi¬ness
News “Forty Under 40” award.
Patrick H. Jones has spent his entire legal career representing management in vari¬ous
employment-related matters. He has significant traditional labor law experience, including representing clients in arbitration under collective bargaining agreements and
before the National Labor Relations Board, and assisting clients engaged in collective
bargaining negotiations. He has advised companies dealing with strikes and other
job actions, and has obtained court injunctions against illegal strikes and picketing. In
addition to traditional labor work, Mr. Jones is known for effectively defending clients
against wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, and retaliation claims in federal and state courts. He has also represented clients against alleged whistleblowers
under Hawaii law and the federal False Claims and Sarbanes-Oxley Acts. Concerning
alleged unlawful discrimination, Mr. Jones has helped many clients re¬spond to administrative charges and claims filed with the Equal Employment Oppor¬tunity Com-
2015 EMPLOYMENT & LABOR LAW FORUM
12:15 - 1:15 PM Lunch Break (On your own)
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Social Media: Who’s in the Know (Darin Leong)
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Investigations: Tips and Strategies (Darin Leong)
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Break
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Latest and Not So Greatest News from the NLRB (Patrick Jones)
mission, Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial
Relations (for example, claims under the unemployment statute and the Hawaii law
prohibiting discrimination because of work injuries), and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. sents clients with respect to occupational safety issues
under the federal and state Occupational Safety and Health Admin¬istration laws,
wage and hour issues (for example, overtime and prevailing wage issues), leave
issues under the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act
and related state laws, and corporate restructuring and downsizing issues under the
Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act and Hawaii Dis¬located Workers
laws).
Christopher S. Yeh practices in all aspects of labor and employment law, ad¬vises
companies on a wide range of employment matters, and has suc¬cessfully represented employers in proceedings before private arbitra¬tors as well as the state and
federal courts in Hawaii, Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, National Labor Relations Board, and Hawaii Department of Labor
and Industrial Relations.
Mr. Yeh has taught at both Hawaii Pacific University and the Universi¬ty of Hawaii
William S. Richardson School of Law. He is a regular speaker at employment law
seminars on subjects such as sexual harassment, dis¬crimination, disability accommodation, and employee leave issues with an em¬phasis on the Family Medical
Leave Act and American with Disabilities Act.Mr. Yeh joined MJW as an associate in
December 1998 and became a partner in 2003. Prior to joining the firm, he specialized in labor and employment law at the law firm of Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel
in Honolulu. He is a graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Law School. Mr. Yeh
has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America and is listed in the Chambers
USA directory, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.
Christopher J. Cole has practiced labor and employment law since 1992. For more
than two decades, Mr. Cole has defended Hawaii employers against lawsuits involving allegations of sexual harassment, retaliation, discrimination, whistleblowing, trade
secret/non-compete agreement enforcement, tort, and breach of contract. Mr. Cole
is also experienced in labor arbitration, mediation, workplace investigations, FLSA
wage and hour compliance audits, workplace violence, drug-testing policies, EEO
training, whistleblower proceedings, workers compensation rate litigation, unemployment insurance appeals, employment contracts, separation agreements, ADA confidentiality, and employee discipline and discharge.
Mr. Cole is a graduate of the University of California, Hastings College of Law. Upon
graduation in 1992, Mr. Cole joined the Labor and Employment Department of Carlsmith Ball LLP as an associate. Before joining Marr Jones & Wang, Mr. Cole practiced as a litigation partner at Carlsmith Ball, and McCorriston Miller Mukai MacKinnon, LLP, where he handled a wide range of commercial and general litigation
matters, while always maintaining an active employment law practice. In 2012, Mr.
Cole joined Marr Jones & Wang, focusing exclusively on labor and employment law.
Mr. Cole is admitted to practice law in the state and federal courts in Hawaii, the
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the United States Tax Court.
Mr. Cole has been selected for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America.
Presented by Marr Jones & Wang
Held on January 8th, 2015 at the
Ala Moana Hotel
410 Atkinson Dr
Honolulu, HI 96814
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