2022 Labor & Employment Law Update – Significant Changes Impacting Employers

We are now one and a half years into the Biden administration and more than two years into the COVID pandemic. During this session we will take a look back at some of the most significant labor and employment changes and challenges implemented over the past 1.5 years as well as preview the Biden administration’s labor and employment agenda as we move through 2022.

Outline:

• We Remain In Highly Unusual (But Not Necessarily Unprecedented) Times
• • A Bit Of History To Put It Into Perspective
  • Cultural Wars
  • Politics At Work
• What To Expect Moving Forward
• • The Latest On Covid
  • • Court Cases, CDC, OSHA, & Other Orders (Vaccines, Masking, & Other Precautions)
    • Stimulus/Unemployment/Health Insurance
    • Workplace Impact
  • Executive Orders
  • • Orders Impacting Employers
  • Legislative Agenda
  • • Significant Laws Impacting Employers
    • See the PRO Act (or its replacement)
  • The Supreme Court
  • • Significant Decisions Impacting Employers
  • EEOC
  • • The Commissioners – What To Expect
    • Enforcement Areas
    • Independent Contractors
  • DOL
  • • Tipped Minimum Wage Employees
    • Independent Contractors
  • NLRB
  • • The Board – What to Expect
    • Independent Contractors

Speaker: Burton D Garland Jr, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.

Mr. Garland practices all facets of labor and employment law. Mr. Garland’s labor law practice includes union avoidance counseling and campaigns, elections, objections to elections, R-Case strategy and litigation, collective bargaining, strikes and injunctions, arbitration, and unfair labor practice charges before the National Labor Relations Board.

Mr. Garland’s employment practice includes litigating employment discrimination matters under Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, the Federal False Claims Act, and the various state counterparts to these federal laws. Mr. Garland has extensive experience litigating high stakes matters in the context of motions seeking temporary restraining orders and other injunctive relief matters involving restrictive covenants (non-compete, non-solicit and confidentiality agreements); misappropriation of trade secrets; retaliation; tortious interference; unfair competition; and related claims. In addition to representing clients in federal and state court and before federal and state agencies, Mr. Garland’s practice includes advising clients on employment-related matters and drafting personnel policies, employment contracts, severance agreements, and employee handbooks. Mr. Garland also has significant experience in wage and hour class action defense and in FINRA arbitrations. Mr. Garland has appeared in federal and state courts and agencies throughout the country and is permanently admitted to practice law both in Missouri and Illinois.