Connecticut Legal Update: New Employment and Labor Issues Affecting Connecticut Employers

This informative two-hour briefing will focus on new and expanding labor and employment laws affecting companies that do business in Connecticut.  Our interactive discussion will provide employers with practical tips on how to respond to these developments in their day-to-day operations so as to avoid legal issues.

This program will bring you the latest court, legislative, and agency activity that you need to know now, and will need to know in the coming months, including:

• Review and analysis of the “ambush” union election rules that became effective on April 14, 2015
• Ever-expanding definition of concerted activity protected by the National Labor Relations Act for both non-unionized and unionized workers
• EEOC initiatives to limit the scope of releases and settlement agreements and some practical options
• Enhanced protection for unpaid interns in the wake of Connecticut legislation and Second Circuit decisions
• Clarification of employer data preservation and disclosure obligations under new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
• Implications of these new developments for handbook provisions and employment policies and practices​

Registration and Breakfast: 8:00 - 8:30 am

Program: 8:30 - 10:30 am