Wage and Hour Law and Litigation Strategies
EL530 $1095
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9:00 am-4:30 pm
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Wage and hour litigation has grown dramatically over the last decade, with employers paying large sums of money to plaintiffs to remedy violations. In this two-day interactive program, participants will take a detailed, in-depth look at the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and will gain the skills and knowledge needed to assess compliance with wage and hour laws, advise clients, and litigate these cases in federal court. Topics include:
Wage and Hour Fundamentals
- Major provisions of the FLSA
- Employee vs. independent contractor
- Exempt vs. non-exempt employee
- Exemptions from the federal minimum wage and overtime
requirements - How to determine compensable hours
- What is the "regular rate of pay"?
- What is off the clock?
- How travel and training time are handled
- Overtime/compensatory time
- Federal record-keeping requirements
- Impact of New York State labor law
Latest Case Developments
- Undocumented workers
- Damages
- Donning and doffing
- RICO violations
- USDOL opinion letters
Investigating and Litigating Cases
- Anatomy of a wage-hour investigation
- Individual liability
- Representation across many states, multi-jurisdictional practice
- Use of statistics and sampling
- Class Action Fairness Act
- Representing the class and use of composites
- Settlement considerations
Ethical Challenges and Issues
Unique Feature: Day Two of this program will be devoted to
litigation strategies with defendant and plaintiff attorneys working separately to hone their skills.
Instructors
Adam T. Klein, Esq.
Partner, Outten & Golden LLP
Adam T. Klein is a partner of Outten & Golden LLP and chair of the firm's class action practice group. His practice is limited to the prosecution of class action and impact litigation of employment discrimination and wage and hour claims. Mr. Klein presently serves as lead or co-lead plaintiffs' counsel in a variety of wage and hour class/collective actions including cases against Wal-Mart, IBM, Washington Mutual, Verizon, UPS, A&P, HSBC, JP Morgan Chase, and GEICO.
Mr. Klein is active in several bar associations and currently serves as a co-chair of the Class Action Committee of National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA). He also is the plaintiffs' co-chair of the largest committee within the Labor and Employment Law Section, the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee.
Christopher Parlo, Esq.
Partner, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
Christopher A. Parlo is a partner in the Labor and Employment Practice of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP. Mr. Parlo represents and counsels management clients in a broad spectrum of industries and in all aspects of labor and employment law, including standard and complex litigation, employee benefits litigation, protection of trade secrets and unfair competition, labor and employment counseling, and in
administrative proceedings at the local, state and federal level.
He has worked extensively on and litigated nationwide class and collective action cases, employee discrimination cases, matters involving traditional and newly evolving employee claims against employers
and their officers, cases involving restrictive covenants and protection of employer trade secrets and confidential information, wrongful discharge,
retaliation, breach of contract and employment-related torts.
Mr. Parlo won the M.H. Goldstein Memorial Prize for outstanding achievement in the area of labor law.
