Employment Law for the Workplace

Format: Audio/video file (.wmv)
Estimated Duration: 60 minutes
THA/TONE Member Price: $59 for a limited time!
Non-member Price: $265

OVERVIEW

This recording of a webinar held on Aug. 3, 2010 features employment law experts addressing hot button employment issues in the health care world. We'll explore the recent changes to the Americans with Disabilities Act, the wage and hour issue of compensation for breaks and mealtimes, and military leave and accommodating returning veterans. You'll also hear the legal perspective on unionization efforts of Texas health care workers and gain insights into practical "how-to's" for managing workforce challenges and new regulations.

After this program, participants will be able to:

• Assess changes necessary to ensure reasonable accommodation with expanded coverage of employee conditions under the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act;
• Identify how to avoid Department of Labor/employee class action claims for compensation for breaks or meal periods;
• Discuss the rights of employees either leaving for or returning from military service; and
• Evaluate the evolving role of unions in Texas health care.  

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FACULTY

Brian Greig offices in Fulbright & Jaworski's Austin location, where he is a senior partner and chair of the firm's labor and employment department worldwide. He has been with the firm for more than 30 years, a partner since 1983 and an elected member of the governing policy committee. Prior to joining Fulbright, he was a law clerk for the Honorable Joe Fisher, chief judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

Greig focuses on the labor and employment law area representing management. He has considerable experience in trade secret, restrictive covenant, and similar litigation relating to efforts to protect employers' assets and expertise possessed by departing employees. He also has extensive experience in construction cases, and is certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Labor and Employment Law. In the early 1980s, he served as special counsel to the attorney general of Texas in the Ruiz v. Estelle prison conditions litigation.

Jaclyn Hermes joined Fulbright & Jaworski LLP in 2003, and has worked in both the Austin and Houston locations. As a senior associate, Hermes' practice focuses on labor and employment matters. She represents employers in federal and state court and before administrative agencies such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Texas Workforce Commission. She handles litigation matters at both the trial and appellate level.

Hermes has represented management in civil rights actions, wrongful discharge, employment tort, defamation, breach of contract, tortious interference, Employee Retirement Income Security Act, Family and Medical Leave Act and other employment-related charges and litigation. She also regularly advises and defends clients in matters related to wage and hour law, Occupational Safety and Health Act, Sarbanes-Oxley Act and a variety of other labor issues.

The views expressed by the speakers do not necessarily reflect the policies or opinions of the Texas Hospital Association.