Special thanks to Jackson & Lewis LLP for its generous sponsorship of the Labor & Employment Committee.
Committee Co-Chairs
Ted Borromeo
Assistant General Counsel, McKesson Corporation
Elizabeth Franklin
Executive Director, Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.
The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Labor and Employment Law Committee is focused on issues of interest to in-house counsel in the area of labor and employment law. The committee hosts quarterly CLE programs on a broad range of topics including preventative strategies for minimizing risk, single and multi-party litigation issues, wage and hour claims, state and federal administrative agency compliance and other issues unique to labor and employment law matters.
For more information on chapter activities, to suggest a topic for a CLE program or to participate in a presentation, please contact one of the Committee Co-Chairs.
programs
2/22/11
DFEH in the New Civil Rights Era
Like the phoenix, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing has transformed itself under the State’s fiscal austerity to become a more effective and efficient civil rights agency. Doing more with less, the DFEH now targets systemic discrimination using case grading, special investigations, group/class actions, mediation and education. Learn about the Department’s innovations from automation to class action, and see how to work with the renewed DFEH.
SPEAKER
Phyllis W. Cheng
Director of the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH). In her role, she has conducted outreach in person and via mass media to hundreds of communities statewide, introduced new resources to educate the public on civil rights compliance, and implemented a variety of other changes in the DFEH. Prior to her current position, Ms. Cheng has practiced at a national employment and labor law firm representing management, served as a senior appellate court attorney to the Honorable Laurie D. Zelon, Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, served as a deputy attorney general in the Civil Rights Enforcement Section of the California Department of Justice, and represented plaintiffs at a civil and human rights firm. Former Governor Pete Wilson appointed Ms. Cheng to two terms on the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission, where she served as vice chair, regulations subcommittee chair, and ruled on nearly 80 Fair Employment and Housing Act, Unruh Civil Rights Act, and Ralph Civil Rights Act cases. Ms. Cheng received her B.A. and M.Ed. from UCLA, her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, and her J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law.
