Defending and Managing the Latest Off-the-Clock Claims Involving the Continuous Work Day, Use of Smartphones/Mobile Devices Outside of Scheduled Hours, Working Remotely, and Alternative Working Arrangements

This conference will provide you with an unparalleled opportunity to convene with expert in-house counsel as well as renowned federal and state judges, and leading outside counsel from around the nation, who will provide you with expert advice, insider strategies, and comprehensive updates, including:

• Smartphones/Mobile Devices/Email and Beyond
• Latest FLSA and state wage & hour case law involving:
  • Mobile devices and emails (BlackBerry, smartphones, VPN)
  • Telephone calls (texts): How are text messages interpreted?; identifying business versus personal calls and texts?; employee to employee calls
  • Employees giving email and/or cell phone to customers or potential customers
  • Computer network log-in data
  • VPN or Virtual Desktop
  • Transaction data
  • GPS Data / Work order data

  • Work assignment upload and downloading data

• Innovative defense strategies to claims involving uncompensated, work-related use of smartphones and other mobile devices by non-exempt employees outside their working hours
  • How to defeat the similarly situated requirement of the collective action certification process
  • Winning the issue of whether putative class members are similarly situated for purposes of the class and collective action certification process
  • Using cases involving on-call time claims as guidance

Speakers

• Theodora Lee, Shareholder, Littler Mendelson
• Heather Sager, Shareholder, Vedder Price

Program: 9:50 am - 10:30 am

Location:
The Westin Bonaventure Hotel
404 S. Figueroa St.
Los Angeles, CA

Questions? Call (888) 224-2480