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International Employment
Law 2015
New York City and Live Webcast, June 29, 2015
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New York City and Live Webcast, June 29, 2015
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Satisfy your CLE, CPD and HRCI HR Recertification credit requirements!
International Employment Law 2015
• Learn what keeps global counsel and HR professionals up at night: Key problems facing multinational employers
• Analyze different legal standards across borders for hiring and firing
• Understand the challenges of managing expatriates in the U.S. and overseas
• Explore cross-border data privacy challenges
• Discuss global mobility and cross-border employment agreements
• Evaluate cross-border whistleblower cases, bounty awards, and SEC enforcement efforts
Special Feature
• Earn up to one hour of Ethics credit
Register Today! Call (800) 260-4PLI or visit www.pli.edu/BHJ5 for more details.
Satisfy your CLE, CPD and HRCI HR Recertification credit requirements!
International Employment Law 2015
New York City and Live Webcast, June 29, 2015
Why You Should Attend
Employment law is now a global issue. Multinational employers no longer look at their labor
and employment matters from a purely local perspective. As they protect their global brands,
they coordinate approaches across borders. In doing so, multinational employers must grapple
with often conflicting standards for hiring, retaining, disciplining, and terminating employees.
The issues are all the more challenging today, as privacy laws, new pressures for pay equity,
anti-corruption laws, and whistleblower laws, from the U.S. and overseas, impose standards
of conduct across borders. In addition, employment litigation increasingly involves cross-border
issues: witnesses and documents may be overseas, and cultural issues and expectations
are often in the forefront.
This program brings together highly experienced and sophisticated practitioners, in-house counsel,
and senior human resources executives from around the world. They will present, in a practical way,
how best to advise the multinational employer on these critical issues.
What’s on the Agenda?
Corporate Counsel Roundtable: Key Problems Facing International Employers
• Use of background checks
• Fatigue management policies
• Working time and overtime compliance
• International human rights
• Global unions and works councils
Managing Expatriates in the U.S. and Overseas
• International discrimination issues
• Training and acculturation
• Differing “work-life balance” views
• Employment at-will and other odd concepts
Employee Personal Data – Cross-Border Data Privacy Challenges
• Centralizing HR data systems, cross-border flow of employee personal data
and the legal requirements, including new developments
• Securing employee personal data – what is required?
• Subcontracting HR services, and vendor due diligence and data privacy commitments
• Unique issues where cloud/privacy issues may arise, including BYOD, wearable devices
and social media
• Data breach, and employer obligations and challenges
Global Mobility and Cross-Border Employment Agreements
• The challenges for global companies: Different countries, different rules
• Documentation: Assignment agreements, secondment agreements, policies
• Common (and not-so-common) tax and social security challenges
• European Union: Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) IV
• Compensation and benefits coordination
• Cross-border restrictive covenants and trade secrets
Ethical Challenges: Government Prosecutions and Employment Lawsuits
• Retaliation and ethical risks in carrying out investigations
• Ethical issues in whistleblower claims brought by internal counsel
• Ethics of whistleblower settlement agreements
• Interviewing employee witnesses: Ethical challenges overseas
• Ethics of working with multiple enforcement agencies
• U.S. discovery requirements vs. overseas laws and expectations
• Attorney-client privilege issues in multiple jurisdictions
New York City, #58945; Program Fee: $1,595
Faculty
Chair:
Philip M. Berkowitz
Littler Mendelson P.C.
New York City
Shalini Agarwal
In Se Legal
New Delhi
Edward C. O’Callaghan
Clifford Chance LLP
New York City
Bettina Bender
CM Murray LLP
London
Louise Patry
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
Montreal
Mercedes Balado Bevilacqua
MBB Abogados
Buenos Aires
Nicola Rabson
Linklaters
London
Erika C. Collins
Proskauer Rose LLP
New York City
Anders Etgen Reitz
Advokat, Partner
IUNO
Copenhagen
Orrie Dinstein
Global Privacy Leader
Marsh & McLennan
Companies, Inc.
New York City
Donald C. Dowling, Jr.
K&L Gates LLP
New York City
Dr. Timon Grau
Freshfields Bruckhaus
Deringer LLP
Frankfurt
John W. Hamlin
Chief Employment Counsel
Marsh & McLennan
Companies, Inc.
New York City
Catherine LaChapelle
Chief Counsel,
International Labor
Koch Industries, Inc.
Wichita, Kansas
Wendi S. Lazar
Outten & Golden LLP
New York City
Johan Lubbe
Littler Mendelson P.C.
New York City
Sean McKessy (Invited)
Chief, Office of the
Whistleblower
Division of Enforcement
U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission
Washington, D.C.
Dirk Jan Rutgers
Rutgers & Posch
Amsterdam
Gary R. Siniscalco
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
San Francisco
Hironobu Tsukamoto
Nagashima Ohno &
Tsunematsu NY LLP
New York City
Joanna (Jodi) Varon
Vice President and Associate
General Counsel
SMBC Capital Markets, Inc.
New York City
Dr. Gerlind Wisskirchen
CMS Hasche Sigle
Cologne
Ken Yormark
Director, Disputes &
Investigations
Navigant Consulting, Inc.
New York City
Dr. Xiaolin Zhou
Jun He Law Offices LLC
New York City
Program Attorney:
Danielle B. Cohen
Register Today! Call (800) 260-4PLI or visit www.pli.edu/BHJ5 for more details.