California (CA) Employment Law CLE Course Catalog

This seminar looks at the potential change in the work environment and what practitioners and employers can do to adapt to the "new" normal.

Take a tour of a wide variety of employee benefits topics, including pension and 401k plan due diligence issues, notice and disclosure requirements, PBGC Early Warning Program negotiations, plan design issues, and allocation of responsibilities for COBRA health coverage. Find out about the strategies to follow and the pitfalls to avoid when these issues arise in the M&A context.

Join our panel of experts as they discuss the ramifications of the 2018 decision in Janus that undid 41 years of precedent in ruling that "fair share" clauses in public sector union contracts violate non-member payers' First Amendment Constitutional rights.

During a pandemic, a host of issues can arise that implicate the ADA. Screening job applicants for COVID symptoms, asking questions about whether an employee is at a higher risk of severe symptoms if he gets COVID due to an underlying medical condition, and addressing reasonable accommodation and undue hardship during the pandemic and its associated business challenges, can all raise questions under the ADA and other EEO laws.

This session will provide a cursory overview of security and privacy concerns lawyers should consider before evaluating a new technology for their practice. Then, speakers will discuss choosing a technology. Specifically, whether a firm should build their own, buy off the shelf, or consider an open-source solution.

It used to just be ERISA. And then came COBRA. And HIPAA. And a whole lot more after that, including some state and local rules that ERISA might have been thought to preempt. Such is the increasingly complicated regulatory regime applicable to health and welfare benefits that you blink and the whole landscape seems to have changed. Add an unprecedented pandemic, and you end up with turbulent times indeed.

The Supreme Court's landmark decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia interprets Title VII of the Civil Rights Act to prohibit discrimination in the workplace on the basis of an employee's LGBTQ status.

The program will teach attendees how to represent clients in hearings before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Judge Sharon L. Steckler, administrative law judges from the National Labor Relations Board in DC, lead panelists through an overview of the process while also covering pre-hearing preparation, settlement discussions, the hearing itself, and post hearing briefing.

Join our expert panelists as they discuss the recovery of attorneys' fees in ERISA litigation and when fees are available to a litigant.