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2006 Employment Law Breakfast Series |
All events from 7:45 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. |
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| March |
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March 15
Boca Raton
March 16
West Palm Beach |
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE WORKPLACE:
YOUR MOST IMPORTANT (AND LEAST-PROTECTED) ASSET |
- Drafting non-compete agreements
- Misappropriation of trade secrets
- Crafting effective workplace technology policies
- Protecting the confidentiality of your data
- Responding to blogs, spoofing, chat rooms, cybersquatters and trademark infringers
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| April |
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April 19
Boca Raton
April 21
West Palm Beach |
FLSA AND OVERTIME:
ONCE EXEMPT, ALWAYS EXEMPT? |
- Proactive ways to try to preserve employees’ exempt status
- Documenting accurate job descriptions
- Monitoring actual job performance
- Docking wages, imposing progressive discipline issues,
Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Strategies for minimizing the risk of costly litigation
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| May |
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May 24
Boca Raton
May 25
West Palm Beach |
HURRICANES: MANAGING THROUGH THE STORMS |
- Applicability of laws protecting disaster-relief workers
- Termination of employees unable or unwilling to return when your business reopens
- To pay or not to pay employees when the business is closed
- Charging employees’ PTO accounts for days paid during
the hurricanes
- Business interruption insurance may not be as safe a harbor
as you think
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| June |
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June 28
Boca Raton
June 29
West Palm Beach |
FIRING AT WILL: LESSONS IN RISK MANAGEMENT |
- Steps to take before the decision to terminate is made
- Should you terminate the employee “for cause” or “without cause”?
- Security measures seeking to limit liability and to protect other employees and the employer
- How specific should the employer be in explaining reasons for termination?
- Separation agreements: a powerful tool to try to avoid litigation
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| July |
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July 19
Boca Raton
July 20
West Palm Beach |
TRAINING AND POLICIES:
AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION CAN BE WORTH A POUND OF CURE |
- An employee manual or handbook alone isn’t enough
- The nuts and bolts of an effective training program
- Is your training program up to date?
- How you can have policies that are known, implemented,
and enforced
- Integration of policies, training and their effective application
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Employment Law Breakfast Series Locations |
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West Palm Beach
Governor’s Club at Phillips Point
777 S. Flagler Drive, East Tower
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
(561) 832-7577 |
Boca Raton
Boca Raton Marriott at Boca Center
5150 Town Center Circle
Boca Raton, FL 33486
(561) 392-4600 |
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Complimentary Continental Breakfast will be served |
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Our Firm’s Other Practice Areas Include |
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• Appellate Practice
• Administrative Law
• Commercial Litigation |
• Government Regulation
• Health Care
• White-Collar Criminal Defense |
• Intellectual Property
• Real Estate
• Insurance Litigation |
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