October 7, 2020: The Top Employment Law Challenges Currently Confronting Employers

This year has been filled with unprecedented and ever evolving challenges.  Although the dust is far from settled, Employment Law Partners Maria Stearns and Brandon Sylvia will discuss the primary employment law challenges currently being faced by employers and best practices for navigating them.  They will be joined by Joanna Blake, Vice President of People Services and General Counsel of WKS Restaurant Corporation, who will share her practical insights on best practices for adjusting to these new challenges.  Topics will include:  wage-and-hour risk and the remote workforce; reasonable accommodation obligations amid the pandemic; managing unsafe workplace claims;
heightened racial and political tensions in the workplace; among others.