Let’s kick off the new year with a fun-filled game show that will help you and your company navigate a slew of new laws and avoid traps for the unwary. This presentation will keep you and your teammates on your toes as you test your knowledge on the changes in CA employment laws, which will cover a broad range of topics from:

• Payment of wages
• Salary history inquiries
• Broader protections for employees under the CA Fair Employment & Housing Act
• Leaves of absence
• Arbitration agreements
• Confidentiality and no rehire provisions in separation agreements,
• Independent contractor arrangements
• .... and more!

Our presenter is Jane Kow, Principal, and Founder of HR Law Consultants. For over two decades she has advised, trained, audited, and investigated workplaces to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local workplace laws. Jane's full bio can be found here, and she has an impressive work history. Jane Kow advises employers on all aspects of workplace laws, including sexual harassment prevention, investigating, and resolving workplace complaints, legal issues of supervision, regulating employee’s social media use, documenting employee misconduct and performance issues, medical leaves, and reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities, and other employment law compliance topics. She has trained hundreds, if not thousands of HR and employee relations professionals, managers, lawyers, and judges on these and other topics and routinely provides customized, interactive sexual harassment prevention training for workplaces consistent with the requirements under AB 1825 California’s sexual harassment prevention law.

Schedule:

6:00 PM Doors open, Networking
6:30-6:35 Welcome and Announcements
6:35-7:50 Speaker, Q&A
7:50-8:30 Audience Introductions, Announcements, Networking

Join in the fun and bring a friend, or two, or three, and you will all learn some new things in this interactive learning environment with HR friends and colleagues. Kindly RSVP and kindly register your guest(-s) as well. Feel free to bring a beverage or healthy snack to share! Coffee with fixings and water will be served.

Attendees can park on either side of the clubhouse. [Be careful not to park in any space marked "reserved" - you will be subject to tow].