Events

12:00 PM EDT Informal Networking Lunch 1:15 PM EDT Implicit Bias This presentation will discuss: How to advise your client on implicit bias: This would cover advice on how to avoid implicit bias and how and why to train your employees on implicit bias. Use of implicit bias in court: This would cover how plaintiffs are attempting to use implicit bias evidence to support employment discrimination claims, potential defenses to the use of implicit bias evidence, and how the courts...

3:45 PM EDT Responding to EEOC Complaints This session will discuss the steps that a municipal attorney should take upon receipt of an EEOC Charge, and will offer suggestions as to how to make a municipality’s response to that Charge persuasive, effective, and, ultimately, more successful. Speaker: Douglas Haney Moderator: Beth Anne Childs 5:00 PM EDT Networking Reception

FMLA & the ADA including new EFMLA and FFCRA Considerations This session will explore the complicated layer of laws and other considerations that apply when handling a public employee’s medical issue, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). This session will also provide an overview of the recently passed FFCRA, including EPSLA and the expansion of FMLA. Speakers: Jana Sullivan & Daniel White Moderator: Susana Alcala Wood

1:00 PM EDT The Fourth Amendment and Drug Policies in the Workplace It has often been said that one of the largest components of a local government’s budget is for personnel costs. While there are many similarities between guiding employers between the public and private sectors, public employers have some additional concerns not faced by their private employment counterparts. The goal of this presentation is to provide public sector employers, particularly local governments, guidance and roadmaps to navigate through the...

Breaking Blue; Considerations in Advising and Defending in Police Disciplinary Actions The presenters will provide insights on how to defend police disciplinary actions, particularly where pending litigation and Court Approved Settlement Agreement with the Department of Justice intersect. Speakers: Melissa Kountz & Lindsay Van Meter