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A 12 Step Workshop:  Create a Policy Handbook to Manage Employees AND Avoid Litigation

with Jan Michelsen, ESQ.

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Navigating the treacherous waters of workplace law has never been more difficult as in these tough economic times.  However, there are proactive steps, creative solutions, and time-tested best practices that business owners, leaders of organizations, managers, and supervisors can implement to effectively manage employees while avoiding legal liability.

One of the most important and useful tools is an Employee Handbook.  An updated handbook is essential in light of legal issues and risks that employers today face, including amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act, (ADA); the new regulations for the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA); the recently enacted Ledbetter Fair Pay Act; the anticipated passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA); changes in COBRA associated with the economic stimulus; the proposed Healthy Families Act (mini-FMLA); a greater focus on caregiver discrimination; an explosion of electronic discovery obligations; and age claims attendant to downsizing and reductions in force (RIF).

This webinar will help you:

• Understand an employer's rights and responsibilities attendant to these laws. 
• We will discuss, analyze, and explore how to create--or update-- your handbook so it is both user-friendly and legally compliant and to better meet the threats of retaliation.
• Untangle the web of wage and hour claims and collective actions.
• Withstand a harrowing variety of harassment claims.

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Jan Michelsen, ESQ

Ogletree Deakins

Jan Michelsen concentrates her practice in counseling and defending management in labor and employment law matters, including employment discrimination litigation, EEOC charges and complaints, invitations of sexual harassment and other workplace misconduct, the ADEA, the ADA, the FMLA, and USERRA.  She appears in federal and state courts and before regulatory agencies and counsels businesses on employment contracts, privacy issues, electronic communications, wage/hour issues, wrongful discharge, and tort and contract claims, such as defamation and non-competes.  She also advises on labor/maagement relations and union avoidance training and campaigns.

Jan provides a wide range of employers with timely, practical advice including on discipline, termination, reasonable accomodation, and FMLA compliance.  She conducts audits, reviews employee handbooks, works with clients to develop effective, enforceable personnel policies, and offers training to supervisors and executives on various management topics.

Jan is ranked "AV" by Martindale-Hubbell legal directory, the hightest rating possible for her legal ability and ethical standards.  She has written and lectured on labor and employment law topics, contributed to treatises and guidebooks on the FLSA, the Developing Labor Law, the FMLA, and USERRA, and provides practical advice to help human resources professionals and in-house attorneys manage their workforce and avoid litigation.

Prior to her legal career, Jan directed communications, strategic planning, and marketing functions as Director of Business Development at Indiana University School of Law, has an MBA from Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, and earned a B.S. degree, in Journalism, summa cum laude, from Bradley University.

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REGISTRANTS FOR THIS WEBINAR WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE FOLLOWING:

• Ability to recieve "white papers" on topics related to employee relations and avoiding workplace litigation.
• Attendees will recieve invitations to Breakfast Briefings on "hot" topics and timely issues in labor, employment and benefits law.

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