A Remote and Returning Workforce: Navigating Wage & Hour Issues, Discrimination, Harassment and the ADA as Tennessee Gets Back to Work

Your workforce has worked from home for months! Explore employment matters and how to address issues as some employees return to work while some continue working remotely.

Join ACC TN and Three - Star Partner Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, P.C. for One Hour of Free CLE!

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This program has been approved for one-hour of general credit CLE in Tennessee.

Speakers:

Jon Harris represents management in a wide variety of employment-related matters. In addition to defending single-plaintiff lawsuits, Mr. Harris also represents employers in class and collective actions. He has handled countless EEOC charges and defended employers in lawsuits brought by the EEOC, including matters where the agency has asserted systemic claims on behalf of multiple claimants.

In his decade-plus at Ogletree Deakins, Mr. Harris has obtained numerous successes, both in federal and state court. Over 70 cases can be found on Westlaw, where Mr. Harris was counsel for the defense; many of those decisions report dismissal on behalf of his clients. Mr. Harris is not afraid to represent employers in cases involving challenging facts, and he enjoys the opportunity to take a case to trial.

Mr. Harris is a frequent speaker on topics relating to all types of employment issues, and he works with clients on preventive strategies to avoid discrimination, retaliation and other employment claims. After graduating from the Washington University School of Law, from 2000 to 2001 Mr. Harris served as a law clerk for the Honorable E. Richard Weber, a United States District Court Judge in the Eastern District of Missouri.

Mr. Harris is a Fellow of the Nashville Bar Foundation. Mr. Harris has been recognized by the publications The Best Lawyers and Super Lawyers, and his peers have rated him as “AV Preeminent” in Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Harris is the co-chair of the Labor and Employment Section of the Nashville Bar Association, a member of the Tennessee Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Law Section Executive Council, and a board member of Middle Tennessee Society for Human Resources Managers.

Kim Hodges is a shareholder in the Memphis office and has practiced employment law and litigation for over sixteen years. Prior to joining Ogletree Deakins, Kim was lead counsel in Federal Express Corporation’s litigation and employment group and worked in various roles in the HR departments of ServiceMaster – TruGreen ChemLawn, Trailmobile, and Riceland Foods.

Throughout her sixteen years as a litigator, Kim amassed a wealth of employment and commercial litigation experience and defended corporate clients as first-chair counsel in state and federal courts across the United States. She has represented clients in appeals before the 3rd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 9th and 11th Circuit Courts of Appeal and also has experience defending clients in matters before the EEOC, the Department of Labor, and appeals before the Administrative Review Board.

Kim’s litigation experience runs the gamut of employment law and related issues, including: all types of employment discrimination and harassment, wage and hour, FLSA classification, state and federal disability discrimination and accommodation, public access for disabled individuals, FMLA leave and interference, ADEA, complex contracts, non-competition and non-solicitation agreements, trade secrets, whistleblower claims, tort claims, and antitrust/unfair competition.