Program Chair and Presenters:
Katherine L. Charlton
Hawks Quindel, S.C.
Milwaukee
Aaron N. Halstead
Hawks Quindel, S.C.
Madison
Presenters:
Dean R. Dietrich
Ruder Ware, L.L.S.C.
Wausau
Ann Barry Hanneman
von Briesen & Roper, S.C.
Waukesha
Margaret R. Kurlinski
Godfrey & Kahn, S.C.
Milwaukee
A. Steven Porter
A. Steven Porter Attorney at Law
Madison
Sean M. Scullen
Quarles & Brady LLP
Milwaukee
8:00 a.m. : Registration
8:30 a.m. : 2018 Hot Topics in Wage and Hour Law
- Impact of the Supreme Court’s Epic decision on wage and hour collective and class actions
- Most common compliance issues impacting employers and employees
- Wage and hour developments under the Trump administration
Sean M. Scullen
9:20 a.m. : What’s Reasonable? Leave as an Accommodation and Other Developments
- Leave as a reasonable accommodation under the ADA and WFEA
- Accommodation challenges posed by psychiatric disabilities
- Recent Wisconsin case law developments
Margaret R. Kurlinski
10:10 a.m. : Break
10:25 a.m. : Sexual Harassment in the Workplace in the #MeToo Era: Implementing Effective Prevention Strategies and Assuring Legal Compliance
- Understanding the current workplace climate and challenges to cultural change
- Developing and implementing targeted policies and training
- Handling harassment complaints from investigation through remedial action
Ann Barry Hanneman
11:15 a.m. : Exploring the Limits of Protections against Criminal Records Discrimination
- What are the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act’s protections and how have they been limited by the courts?
- The Onalaska rule
- The meaning of “intent” to discriminate
- “Perceived” criminal records discrimination?
- Other considerations
A. Steven Porter
12:05 p.m. : Lunch (on your own)
1:05 p.m. : Ethical Challenges Facing Employment Law Attorneys
- Duty of honesty in your representation
- Duty of candor to the tribunal
- Dealing with the unscrupulous client
- Defining misrepresentation by the client and by the attorney
Dean R. Dietrich
1:55 p.m. : Federal and State Law Updates
Katherine L. Charlton, Aaron N. Halstead
3:20 p.m. : Program Concludes
Following program start times, webcast replay schedule will vary slightly from above listed times.
- Review important federal and state employment law cases from the past year
- Hear about new developments in ADA accommodations and compliance
- Examine hot topics in wage and hour and class action/collective action cases
- Explore the impact of #MeToo on workplace sexual harassment
- Learn how to approach arrest and conviction discrimination
- Delve into the specific ethical challenges of employment law
- Labor and employment law attorneys
- Employee benefits lawyers
- Individual rights attorneys
- General practitioners
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Wisconsin Employment Law
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