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There has been growing emphasis on proper classification of employees. Learn how job descriptions, timely performance appraisals, and communication can help you avoid paying unplanned overtime and audits from the government. While the government provides significant guidance on properly classifying employees there are still a lot of gray areas.

We will review the nuisances regarding: Exempt versus non-exempt, Department of Labor’s white-collar exemptions, the importance of detailed and current job descriptions, and identifying the essential job functions.

SPEAKER 

Rachel Bossard, Partner
Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella, P.C.

Rachel Bossard chairs the Firm’s Labor and Employment law practice group. She represents employers in all aspects of the law including client counseling, training, litigation and benefits. She has extensive experience representing for profit and not-for-profit employers, including corporations, schools, colleges, universities, nursing homes, and municipalities. She has vast trial experience in both state and federal court and has litigated and mediated hundreds of employment law matters filed with various governmental agencies. Ms. Bossard has argued before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on multiple occasions regarding issues such as discrimination, retaliation and failure to accommodate.

Ms. Bossard routinely drafts and reviews all types of employment documents for clients and assists them in making personnel decisions in compliance with the laws. She is very focused on risk management and her clients express their appreciation for her efficient and pragmatic approach. Ms. Bossard is a frequent lecturer on employment law issues and has a tremendous amount of experience presenting and training on important employment topics such as harassment prevention, accommodating disabilities, and wage and hour issues, both in-person and via webinar.

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Join in2vate and cyber experts Resident Agent in Charge Doug Farrell and Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge Steve Baskerville from the United States Secret Service to learn not-so-secret best practices for cybersecurity. With almost 50 years of combined law enforcement experience, these experts will discuss how human error, risky behaviors, or inadequate cyber training contributes to most threats in the modern workplace. Topics reviewed will be email security, password security, web surfing, BYOD, and phishing. Case studies of actual cyberattacks will be used to present best practices that can be implemented to prevent and mitigate future events

SPEAKERS 

Steven A. Baskerville

Steven has been a member of the law enforcement community for the last twenty-five years in municipal and federal positions. He is currently a Special Agent / Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge with the United States Secret Service, assigned to the National Computer Forensics Institute (NCFI) Lab located on the campus of the University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK. Previously, he was assigned to the Technical Security Division in Washington, DC, and to the Waco Resident Office. His investigative duties have included the investigation of state and federal crimes involving the use of electronic devices, access device fraud, bank fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, identity theft, and counterfeiting.

Doug Farrell

Doug’s 22-year career started with the Secret Service in 2000 at the Chicago Field Office and later in the Milwaukee Resident Office.  During that period, Doug handled criminal investigations and supported protective operations.  In 2008, he was transferred to Washington, DC where he was assigned to numerous divisions over a ten-year period, serving on the Presidential Protective Division for just over 5 years.  Doug was promoted to the Resident Agent in Charge of the Tulsa Resident Office in 2018 where he is responsible for overseeing Secret Service operations for the Northern and Eastern Districts of Oklahoma. 

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Employee Reporting Hotlines: Anonymous whistleblower hotlines and how they support a Smart Risk Management® program.

Susan will discuss all things whistleblower lines in this webinar, including: Benefits and misconceptions of anonymous reporting or “whistleblower” lines, the use of whistleblower lines in creating a safe, equitable and risk-averse workplace, and whistleblower lines as part of an overarching compliance and employment risk management strategy.

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Susan Miller Overbey

Susan Miller Overbey is a partner at Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella, P.C. Susan is co-chair of the Firm’s Religious Organizations, and Not-for-Profit Organizations practice group.  Susan has defended and counseled religious, not-for-profit, and educational entities on matters involving hiring, supervision, and retention of employees.  Susan routinely represents child-serving entities in litigation involving employee misconduct and has conducted internal investigations for clients on such matters.  Susan also advises and presents on child-abuse prevention best practices.

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Join us as we hear from Dr. Karla Rhay on the troubling trend of rising youth trafficking and the unique challenges presented throughout pandemic and beyond. We’ll learn about victim risk factors such as grooming behaviors, red flags, and common vulnerabilities. We’ll also learn how today’s perpetrators target and recruit their victims. From awareness and understanding we can move forward in the prevention and protection of our youth.

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Karla Rhay, Ed.D.

Dr. Karla Rhay is the Chief Strategist at The Karla Rhay Group; an organization that provides consulting in leadership, diversity, equity, and inclusion, strategy, and risk management for public schools and community college districts. Dr. Rhay has also served as President of the California Association of Joint Powers Authorities (CAJPA). In 2019 she was awarded the Association of California School Administrators Classified Leader of the Year Award for her visionary and exemplary leadership in the field of public education. Dr. Rhay’s prior experience as an educator and school administrator is a tremendous asset to her experience in risk management, especially as it pertains to child sexual abuse.

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Cybersecurity is a very real threat to any business, but especially those that retain any sensitive client information. Using a hypothetical scenario, Janet will discuss recent examples of cyberattacks and what types of businesses can be attacked. She will review the basics of cyber security and cyber risk assessment as well as the differences between cybersecurity and privacy and how to protect and consider both.

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Janet V. Hallahan

Janet has helped a wide variety of companies navigate complex corporate, technology, privacy/data security and intellectual property legal matters for over fifteen years.  She has worked as a corporate and technology attorney not only as a transactional firm attorney but also as in-house counsel in the healthcare industry and the cloud-based technology industry, and accordingly offers a unique perspective on corporate and technology matters.  Janet focusses her practice on corporate and technology transactions, commercial agreements, cloud computing/software, privacy and data security as well as the licensing, protection and sale of intellectual property and related commercial agreements.  She is certified as a CIPP/US information privacy professional by the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Janet is an adjunct professor at Rutgers University School of Law where she teaches Healthcare Data Security, Privacy and Technology.

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Employee Handbooks are living documents that should be updated frequently to conform with changes in the law and the way your organization operates. Learn which policies are a necessity for all employers and receive tips on how to ensure that your organization is complying with the law, while maintaining the flexibility for management to amend policies and make decisions on a case-by-case basis.

SPEAKER 

Rachel Bossard, Partner
Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella, P.C

Rachel Bossard chairs the Firm’s Labor and Employment law practice group. She represents employers in all aspects of the law including client counseling, training, litigation and benefits. She has extensive experience representing for profit and not-for-profit employers, including corporations, schools, colleges, universities, nursing homes, and municipalities. She has vast trial experience in both state and federal court and has litigated and mediated hundreds of employment law matters filed with various governmental agencies. Ms. Bossard has argued before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on multiple occasions regarding issues such as discrimination, retaliation and failure to accommodate.

Ms. Bossard routinely drafts and reviews all types of employment documents for clients and assists them in making personnel decisions in compliance with the laws. She is very focused on risk management and her clients express their appreciation for her efficient and pragmatic approach. Ms. Bossard is a frequent lecturer on employment law issues and has a tremendous amount of experience presenting and training on important employment topics such as harassment prevention, accommodating disabilities, and wage and hour issues, both in-person and via webinar.

Taking The Gray Out of Classifying
Your Employees

There has been growing emphasis on proper classification of employees. Learn how job descriptions, timely performance appraisals, and communication can help you avoid paying unplanned overtime and audits from the government. While the government provides significant guidance on properly classifying employees there are still a lot of gray areas.

We will review the nuisances regarding: Exempt versus non-exempt, Department of Labor’s white-collar exemptions, the importance of detailed and current job descriptions, and identifying the essential job functions.

Rachel Bossard chairs the Firm’s Labor and Employment law practice group. She represents employers in all aspects of the law including client counseling, training, litigation and benefits. She has extensive experience representing for profit and not-for-profit employers, including corporations, schools, colleges, universities, nursing homes, and municipalities. She has vast trial experience in both state and federal court and has litigated and mediated hundreds of employment law matters filed with various governmental agencies. Ms. Bossard has argued before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on multiple occasions regarding issues such as discrimination, retaliation and failure to accommodate.
 
Ms. Bossard routinely drafts and reviews all types of employment documents for clients and assists them in making personnel decisions in compliance with the laws. She is very focused on risk management and her clients express their appreciation for her efficient and pragmatic approach. Ms. Bossard is a frequent lecturer on employment law issues and has a tremendous amount of experience presenting and training on important employment topics such as harassment prevention, accommodating disabilities, and wage and hour issues, both in-person and via webinar.