Stacey DeKalb participated in the Employment Law Update in Minnesota: Hot Topics in Employment Law seminar on April 1, 2008 and presented by Sterling Education Services.
Program description:
- Compensation Issues Under Revised FLSA Regulations
- Overview of the quirks in the revised FLSA regulations and state wage and hour laws
- Commissions
- Permissible and impermissible deductions
- Payments owed upon termination
- Bonuses
- Other common wage and hour pitfalls
- Hot Topics: The Latest Interpretations of Current Employment Law
- What constitutes sexual harassment?
- The treatment of arrest and conviction records
- Potential expansion of retaliation claims
- Employer liability for the acts of non-employees
- Coping With Leave Laws
- What constitutes a “serious health condition” under FMLA, ADA, USERRA, workers’ compensation laws, and state law?
- When do “serious health problems” count as disabilities?
- What constitutes “reasonable accommodation” of such conditions?
- What to do when FMA leave is exhausted and the employee is unable to treturn to work?
- How to deal with frequent, extended National Guard duty
- Negotiating Separation Agreements in Difficult Termination Situations
- Problem employees
- Reductions in force
- Long-term but ineffective employees
- Employment Issues in the Paperless Workplace
- Legal and practical issues raised by electronic personnel records storage, electronic signatures, online personnel policies, and paperless payroll
- Identity theft protection
- Current best practices regarding employees’ use of company computers
- Practical E-discovery issues for employers
- Avoid Liability in Hiring and Terminating Foreign Nationals
- Employer liability regarding independent contractors
- Job applications and personnel policies that minimize risks
- Acceptable interview questions involving citizenship and immigration status
- Sponsoring a job applicant for a visa with minimum of contract liability
- Procedures to minimize the risk of terminating a non-citizen employee
- Managing the issues that can arise during downsizing or restructuring
- Employee Drug Testing
- State and federal workplace testing laws
- Rules, regulations
- Court decisions