Employment Law Update

Chapter: San Diego, CA
Speaker: Tom Daugherty, Employment Law Partner at Klinedinst PC

In many areas of law, and employment law in particular, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Seemingly small violations can quickly turn into major headaches, including individual litigation and class action lawsuits.

This is a big issue in California. We have, by far, the largest population of any American state, with that population now at almost 40 million. California also has labor laws that are among the most employee-friendly in the country, which is a factor in drawing people to the state which, in turn, provides a vibrant labor pool supporting the growth of the thousands of established and startup companies residing in the state. But those same realities make it a challenge to employers.

This subject is vitally important for financial execs, especially those who may have direct responsibility for human resource management, those who have any responsibility for the corporate culture, or those who are outside of the corporate world doing consulting or contract work.

This presentation will discuss how understanding California’s employment laws, as well as the surrounding federal laws, and implementing good employment policies and practices, can make your employees happy, dedicated and loyal, and can grow your business. We’ll also take a look at the other side of that coin — how a single disgruntled employee, and an employer’s non-compliance with the Labor Code, can turn into a class action lawsuit with damages in the millions, and can devastate a business, in terms of time, money, and company morale.

We will leave this talk with several key takeaways:
- Understanding where Covid-related mandates have come -- and where they may be going in the coming year.
- Complying with new annual antidiscrimination reporting -- and staying ahead of any resultant issues.
- Follow-up on California’s Dynamex case, the "ABC" test, the AB5 law, the replacement AB2257 -- has the head spinning stopped and the dust settled yet?
- The key areas in which my company may need to enhance its employee training, to avoid running afoul of the law.
- How taking preventive measures with good employment law policies and practices can save your company money -- and may save your company itself -- and develop happy and loyal employees

Because of the breadth and depth of our own members’ experience with various aspects of employment law, as well as that of some of our guests, we expect this to be a highly interactive presentation and discussion. On the subject of guests, if you would like to invite your company's general counsel or head of HR to attend, please feel free to do so -- they could both benefit from the presentation and add to the discussion.