Schedule

What's keeping your health care clients up at night? Provide more effective counsel by understanding the most crucial current issues confronting health care employers, including:

• Unique workplace harassment issues and the #MeToo and #TimesUp Movement
• Addressing pay disparity in health care
• Challenges to mandatory vaccination policies
• Healthcare consolidation traps
• Proactive steps to address False Claims Act liability

More than 40 years after the term "sexual harassment" was coined and more than 30 years since the U.S. Supreme Court recognized sexual harassment as a cause of action in Meritor Savings v. Vinson, businesses continue to struggle with it. Stopping sexual harassment starts with effective policies and employee training. Equally important are thorough investigation protocols that prevent issues from lurking in the shadows and send a clear message that offending behavior won't be tolerated.

Discover how to:

• Draft and implement robust sexual harassment policies
• Educate employees
• Conduct fair and thorough investigations
• Implement appropriate corrective action to prevent and remedy incidents​

Though seemingly prohibitive at first, noncompete agreements and restrictive covenants are only meant to prevent unfair competition - not competition in general. In fact, Karsten v. Terra Engineering and Manitowoc Company v. Lanning suggest a trend toward fewer restrictions under Wis. Stat. 103.465

This session introduces you to the benefits and best practices of noncompetes. Learn how they can address activities such as:

• Soliciting colleagues to leave or join a new employer
• Soliciting current, past, or potential customers
• Confidentiality
• Future employment or business actions

Find tips for negotiating and creating fair and enforceable agreements as you discover:

• Essential drafting techniques
• How to avoid missteps that can result in unenforceability
• Ways of detecting and addressing common drafting errors

Cellphones and social media are changing the established traditions of mediation and arbitration in labor and employment law. Find out how the growing presence of technology and social media are affecting these proceedings. Presenters specializing in labor and employment law will explore questions such as:

• What role, if any, should social media and technology play in mediations and arbitrations?
• How is the dynamic of a labor mediation changed when the entire bargaining unit is present through the Facebooking activities of a negotiating team member?
• What if the neutral party is connected to one of the attorneys via social networking or uses social media sites to research the parties prior to mediation?
• What are the benefits and disadvantages of having parties participate via video conferencing?
• What are the implications when a cellphone recording is made without the mediator's, arbitrator's, or opposing party's knowledge?

Think by meeting the FLSA's white-collar exemptions that you're also meeting Wisconsin's? Not so fast. Wisconsin law has more restrictive limitations on the duties requirements for its white-collar exemptions. So how can you ensure your administrative, professional, and executive employees are exempt from both Wisconsin and federal law? Attend this session to learn about:

• The historical development of white-collar exemptions to overtime pay under the FLSA and Wisconsin law
• The differing standards of analysis for determining if an employer's duties are exempt from overtime