Online Programs for Trade Unionists
Union leaders do not need to be lawyers, but, in order to effectively represent their membership, they need to be familiar with the laws that govern the employment relationship. This series of web-based seminars is designed to provide union stewards, business agents, and other union officials with practical legal knowledge that will be useful in day-to-day interactions with both members and management representatives.
Some topics are offered as stand-alone seminars, and others are part of a certificate program. Individuals can sign up for an entire certificate or take as many (or as few) individual sessions as they like.
If pursuing a certificate, sessions marked "Required" must be completed in order to be eligible to receive the certificate.
All sessions will be held on Wednesdays from 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. (EDT).
Upcoming Sessions:
Certificate Series: Workers' Rights: Protection from Workplace Exploitation
A Workers' Rights: Protection from Workplace Exploitation Certificate will be awarded to those completing The Right to Organize and an additional four of the listed seminars.
April 16 & 23: The Right to Organize (required for certificate)
Instructor: Esta Bigler
April 30: Retirement Protections: How Your Pension Is (and Is Not) Secured
Instructor: Dennis Campagna
May 7 & 14: The Americans with Disabilities Act and The Family and Medical Leave Act
Instructor: Angela Cornell
May 21: Federal Wage and Hour Laws - Cancelled
Instructor: Jim Linsey
May 28: New York State Workers' Compensation Law
Instructor: Lew Montemaggi
June 4: Occupational Safety & Health: The Right to Not Be Injured on the Job - Cancelled
Instructor: Nellie Brown
June 11: Privacy Rights in the Workplace
Instructor: Robert J. Reden, Esq.
June 18 & 25: General Municipal Law Section 207 A & C (Police and Fire Line of Duty Injuries)
Instructors: Mary Louise Conrow and Lawrence J. Andolina
A Workers' Rights: Protection from Workplace Exploitation Certificate will be awarded to those completing The Right to Organize and an additional four of the listed seminars.
A future certificate program on Workers' Rights: Freedom from Employment Discrimination, planned for the late summer/fall 2008, will offer sessions in:
- Introduction to Discrimination Law
- Sexual Harassment/Hostile Work Environment
- Special Issues in Race/Sex/Age Discrimination
- Religious Discrimination and Making Accommodations to Religious Observations
- Immigrant and Ethnicity Discrimination
- Disability Discrimination
a. HIV/AIDS
b. Genetic Testing/Predisposition
c. Reasonable Accommodation - Retaliation
- Special Topics in NYS Employment Discrimination Law
-- Marital Status
-- Disability
-- Sexual Orientation
-- Age Discrimination
