Date & Time
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
   |   
7:00 am
PDT
   |   Live Event

Disgruntled former employees, with the assistance of administrative agencies and plaintiffs' lawyers, are making a national pastime out of finding creative ways to take an employer's money but avoid releasing claims. A recent wave of court decisions upholding challenges to the validity of release agreements highlight the difficulty in drafting enforceable releases. Courts have invalidated separation agreements because of failure, among other things, to make it clear that despite executing a general release of claims against his employer, an employee nevertheless has the right to subsequently file a claim with the EEOC.

We will address the pressing, and often subtle, considerations that must be given to release agreements. We will pay special attention to the use of covenants not to sue; individual claims that courts and administrative agencies require employers to carve out of the claims released; and the complicated topics that arise with reductions-in-force, including properly defining eligibility factors and decisional units.

Speakers Include:

Terri M. Solomon — Ms. Solomon has more than 25 years of experience practicing employment and labor law. She regularly represents and advises both non-union and unionized companies throughout the country with respect to: employment and labor relations issues; compliance with federal and state employment laws; discrimination and other employment-related litigation and administrative proceedings; employment contracts and separation agreements; collective bargaining, labor arbitration and compliance with the National Labor Relations Act; workplace violence; FMLA and other leaves of absence; employment contracts and separation agreements.

Bruce R. Millman — Mr. Millman has over 30 years experience counseling private and public sector employers on business and personnel strategies involving personnel policies and their application, disciplinary decisions and wrongful termination, employment discrimination issues, the labor and employment aspects of mergers, business sales, reorganizations and acquisitions, collective bargaining and other union matters, sexual harassment and other forms of harassment, and wage and hour compliance and compensation issues. In addition to counseling clients, he regularly represents clients at the collective bargaining table, in arbitration, and in administrative agency and court litigation.

Special guest speakers Kristen M. Kapoor, Esq., Associate General Counsel at Henry Schein, Inc., and Gregory R. Meyer, Esq., Senior Counsel at IBM Corporation will present their unique, in-house perspectives on drafting, implementing and defending release agreements.

For questions, please contact Lisa Bachner at lbachner@littler.com or (212) 583-2665. Please respond before May 11, 2007.

This program has been approved for 2.0 hours of General CLE credit. Non-transitional credit, not acceptable for newly admitted attorneys.

There is no charge for this program.

Speakers

Bruce R. Millman

Senior Counsel