Webinars

Since the global economic crisis of 2008, the business world has continued to see unprecedented change and disruption. Companies often must navigate compressed business cycles, shift business strategy and reposition executive leadership and talent to align with a new business model. Transition of top leadership brings numerous complexities that can affect business continuity, alter personal lives and impact the overall business brand. In this webinar, we will explore the complexities that can occur when transitioning or exiting executive leadership as a panel of experts review: - Current Trends in Executive Severance Agreements, Offer Letters and Employment Agreements - Best Practices in Executive Career Transitions - Executive Outplacement Services Register today!

Cultural changes and court decisions are prompting rapid and potentially far-reaching changes in the status and protection of LGBTQ employees in Greater China. Speakers from Taipei, Hong Kong, and Shanghai will discuss the extent of legal protections for LGBTQ employees in hiring and termination, discrimination and harassment issues, statutory and non-statutory benefits for same-sex partners and spouses, and the ability of LGBTQ employees to sponsor immigration authorization for foreign national same-sex partners and spouses. Register today!

Join industry expert Corporate Counseling Associates (CCA), in conjunction with the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson PLLC, to discuss mental health in the workplace. The webcast will explore practical ways that human resource professionals can identify warning signs of mental illness and provide support and accommodations to employees within the boundaries of the law. Additionally, you will learn about possible challenges with employee health insurance as you seek to work with employees who are struggling with mental health issues.

As the demand for talent increases, employers are finding that having a global workforce is important to their overall strategy. More than ever, corporations are looking beyond their borders to build their organization with skilled employees. In this interactive webinar, experienced lawyers from Latin America will provide a deeper analysis into immigration and what HR executives need to know when hiring international employees. The second in a series on immigration, this webinar highlights topics such as short-term and long-term work assignments, employee and family migration, how to verify entry requirements and more!

Join us for a proactive discussion as we identify effective measures and remedies to enforce trade secrets. Learn how to protect company interests through confidentiality clauses, restrictive covenants and more! Register today and discover the answers to your most pressing questions in this interactive webinar.

Non-Compete Agreements are often seen as a limitation to an employee's fundamental "freedom to work". Join us in this interactive webinar as we examine this complex topic and its varied legal solutions in the PALOP jurisdictions: Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Sao Tome & Principe. Sign up today to better manage the related risks to your business and receive answers to your most pressing questions!

The ELA is presenting the best lawyers in the Middle East region for a round-table discussion of topics including: - Statistics of Women in the Workplace- Equal Rights Under the Employment Law- Existing Rights Against Discrimination of Women- Encouragement of Women in the Private Sector. Register today and discover the answers to your most pressing questions in this interactive webinar. 

Join us as we present Part 1 of a series of discussions surrounding your most pressing immigration questions. Topics include: Requirements for permanent and provisional residency, Treatment of immigrants Complexity and reality of immigration systems in each jurisdiction

An overview of key employment laws as well as those issues which will be paramount in the upcoming year for US corporations or multinational companies doing business in the United States.

This labor and employment webinar presents an overview of key employment laws as well as identifies issues which will be paramount in the upcoming year for European corporations or multinational companies doing business in Europe.

We have gathered a panel of HR Law experts to discuss the survey statistics on sexual harassment in the workplace and to educate participants on applicable laws and case-law precedents.

We have gathered a panel of Central and South American HR Law experts to discuss the survey statistics on sexual harassment in the workplace and to educate participants on applicable laws and case-law precedents.

We have gathered a panel of Central and South American HR Law experts to discuss the survey statistics on sexual harassment in the workplace and to educate participants on applicable laws and case-law precedents.

We have gathered a panel of HR Law experts from Africa and the Middle East to discuss the survey statistics on sexual harassment in the workplace and to educate participants on applicable laws and case-law precedents.

We have gathered a panel of HR Law experts from across the United States to discuss the survey statistics on sexual harassment in the workplace and to educate participants on applicable laws and case-law precedents.

We have gathered a panel of Canadian HR Law experts to discuss the survey statistics on sexual harassment in the workplace and to educate participants on applicable laws and case-law precedents.

We have gathered a panel of European HR Law experts to discuss the survey statistics on sexual harassment in the workplace and to educate participants on applicable laws and case-law precedents.

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Cultural Considerations for Conducting Business in a Global Economy - Sessions 1 and 2

How to Stop Your Competitors from Raiding Your Workforce and Engaging in Unfair Competition in the U.S. and Canada

With the advent of more and more social networking tools, it is becoming increasingly easier - and often more common - for employees to connect outside of work to talk about work.

Latin and South American countries are becoming increasingly attractive to multi-national companies seeking to open offices on a global basis.

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) within the U.S. Department of Labor is responsible for enforcing the nondiscrimination and affirmative action obligations applicable to federal contractors and subcontractors. Failure to fully comply with these rules puts your government contracts in jeopardy. OFCCP recently received a large increase in funding and personnel, which it intends to devote primarily to enhanced enforcement. Regardless of whether your business is publicly or privately owned, for-profit or non-profit, based in the U.S. or overseas, you need to understand how these new developments will affect your organization.

What In-House Counsel and H.R. Professionals Need to Know

Failure to exercise diligence when hiring new employees can result in workplace violence, fraud, embezzlement and the legal and financial nightmare that can come from hiring someone with a false credential or who is not qualified. To avoid bad hiring decisions, employers increasingly turn to pre-employment background screening as a risk management tool.

While employers in the United States have been conducting background checks on prospective employees for years, it still is a relatively new concept for companies in the EU. American companies have been doing this to uncover resume fraud, screen out potentially dangerous employees, and ascertain whether there has been a past history of criminal or other dangerous behavior.

This webinar is a follow-up to the October 2009 webinar on conducting employee investigations, but will be devoted exclusively to addressing the special and unique issues that arise when investigating employee misconduct in the United States

Conducting internal investigations of employee conduct has been common practice in the U.S. for years, and is only recently becoming a world-wide phenomenon. When grappling with a claim of harassment, discrimination, theft, retaliation, or workplace violence, a multi-national company needs to ensure that its investigation is handled consistently from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and is thorough and professional; otherwise, it faces a real prospect of expensive litigation and significant liability.

Practical Issues for Employers and Employees

Practical Issues for Employers and Employees

How to Do Them Right and Minimize Liability

The global recession has impacted every region in the world. Multi-national companies are being forced to make tough but necessary personnel decisions in all of their operations. One of many challenges is ensuring that layoffs and redundancies are implemented in compliance with local laws, which can vary greatly from country to country and often from region to region within a given jurisdiction.

How Employers Doing Business in the U.S. Should Respond to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

The global recession has impacted every region in the world. Multi-national companies are being forced to make tough but necessary personnel decisions in all of their operations. One of many challenges is ensuring that layoffs and redundancies are implemented in compliance with local laws, which can vary greatly from country to country and often from region to region within a given jurisdiction.

How to Do Them Right and Minimize Liability

What In-House Counsel and Human Resources Professionals Need to Know

What You Need to Know about Doing Business in Iraq in 2009 and Beyond

What In-house Counsel and Human Rresources Professionals Need to Know

Enactment of the Employee Free Choice Act ("EFCA"), which will result in a new paradigm for union organizing and collective bargaining, is certain to be at the top of the legislative agenda for President-Elect Obama. The information presented during both webinars reviewed how the new paradigm will work, how unions may approach negotiations for that all-important first contract, and why interest arbitration for a first contract will make the practical and legal landscape unrecognizable.