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Downtown West Palm
Beach Office
Esperanté Building
222 Lakeview Avenue
Suite 210
West Palm Beach,
FL 33401
Phone: (561) 659-3300
Fax: (561) 659-1911
Northern Palm Beach
County Office
Greenway
Professional Center
4455 Military Trail
Suite 202
Jupiter, FL 33458
Phone: (561) 659-3300
Fax: (561) 253-1270 |
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2007 Employment Law Seminar Series |
All events from 7:45 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. |
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Our Employment Law Group’s attorneys will offer presentations on the following key areas employers are coping with in today’s workforce: |
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April |
24th: Palm Beach Gardens |
26th: West Palm Beach |
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| WHAT EMPLOYERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT RETENTION |
- Employers need to have a data retention policy for electronically stored information – and follow it
- What kind of documents do employers need to retain, and for how long?
- What obligations do employers have in responding to e-discovery, and who bears the costs?
- Failure to disclose data or comply with discovery can have dire consequences in litigation
- How can confidential files, customer databases, or proprietary information be protected?
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May |
22nd: Palm Beach Gardens |
24th: West Palm Beach |
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| 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, or to charge employees' PTO accounts
- Business interruption insurance may not be as safe a harbor as you think
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June |
26th: Palm Beach Gardens |
28th: West Palm Beach |
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| 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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September |
25th: Palm Beach Gardens |
27th: West Palm Beach |
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| 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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October |
23rd: Palm Beach Gardens |
25th: West Palm Beach |
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| 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 Seminar Series Locations |
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Marriott West Palm Beach
1001 Okeechobee Boulevard
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
(561) 833-1234 |
Marriott Palm Beach Gardens
4000 RCA Boulevard
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410
(561) 622-8888 |
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Complimentary Continental Breakfast will be served |
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