2021 HR Law Update
Duration: 90 minutes
Speaker: Dr. Jim Castagnera, Esq.
Webinar Description
Last year posed unique challenges for employers, and 2021 will provide no respite. Employers will continue to deal with the pandemic and the changes it has brought to both physical and remote workplaces. The change of administration means employers need to shift gears and brace themselves for the reversal of the Trump Administration’s pro-employer orientation. We guarantee the Biden Administration will have a pro-labor focus. Many Trump era Executive Orders will be revised or rescinded, and Biden Administration labor-friendly Executive Orders, regulations, and possibly legislation will be enacted.
Regulatory agencies such as the EEOC, the OFCCP, OSHA, NLRB, and DOL will be reinvigorated, beefing up their enforcement activities, which are likely to receive increased funding and staffing. At the state level, individual jurisdictions will continue to enact new labor and employment legislation.
Bottom line: employers will find themselves operating in a far less friendly regulatory environment. Companies across the country will need to adopt and adapt new employee management strategies which reflect this new reality. Now is the time to begin planning for the inevitable modifications in federal and state laws, regulations, and enforcement. This begins by familiarizing yourself with the major changes in Executive Orders, laws and regulations that will be enacted and proposed in the new year.
Please join Dr. Jim Castagnera, employment law attorney as he discusses the important federal and state legislative and regulatory initiatives employers can expect to see in 2021 and offers guidance for developing new employment management strategies which address this new reality and the leveling of the employer and employee playing field that will result.
AGENDA
- Workplace safety reporting requiring employers to report employee injury and illness information which might be made available to the public
- Reinstituting the OFCCP blacklist reporting for federal contractors which requires federal contractors to report workplace law violations
- Restoring the Democratic majority on the NLRB which would be expected to be favorable to unions
- New pay equity legislation, regulations, or Executive Orders to address the issues of wage discrimination based on the sex, sexual orientation or sexual identity of the employee is also likely
- Expansion of the Affordable Care Act, negating an anticipated an adverse Supreme Court decision, and affording more health care options while preserving protections for persons with pre-existing medical conditions
- Providing new employment options for employers for seasonal and highly skilled foreign workers as well as Eliminating Trump era immigration restrictions including ending the “Muslim Ban,” providing new protections for “Dreamers” and those with temporary Protected Status,
- Enacting comprehensive immigration reform
- new privacy lNws perhaps modeled after the current California statutes
- Potential limitations on non-competition and non-solicitation agreements.
- Potential federal level laws, regulations, or Executive Orders on Privacy to standardize the requirements across all states
- Increased enforcement of and penalties for misclassifying employees as independent contractors. Changes in the test to determine if a worker is an independent contractor or an employee modeled after current California law are also possible.
- Possible increases in the federal minimum wage over several years to $15 per hour
- EEOC guidelines concerning employer-mandated COVID-19 vaccinations
- New workplace safety requirements including OSHA mandatory emergency standards which require employers to have workplace safety plans which might require OSHA approval
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Logistics
- 90-minute webinar (Travel-Free) delivered over the Internet.
- Unlimited listeners per connection - bring the entire department.
- Q&A session with the expert.
This event will be presented live with a PowerPoint presentation to be viewed on your computer. You may listen to the audio of the webinar by telephone or through your computer. The PowerPoint slides will be provided shortly before the event. Once you register, you will receive an email which is your receipt and which includes your instructions for dialing in and logging on. You will also receive an email reminder 24 hours before the webinar.
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