Employment Law
On Monday, December 11, 2006, I'll be conducting a labor and employment law seminar at the Illinois Institute of Technology's (IIT) Stuart Graduate School of Business, at the Kent College of Law, for a group of 21 government officials and business people from the northern Chinese province of Inner Mongolia. They're studying at the Stuart [...]
On Wednesday, November 15, 2006, from 3pm-4:30pm, I'll be conducting a free employment law seminar at Chicago's City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle St., Room 805. This will be largely Q&A and round-table discussion. Additionally, I'll be providing participants with a 14 page handout summarizing 55 federal, state and local labor and employment laws, and explaining [...]
My program "Understanding Employment Law" is scheduled for Friday, October 6, 2006, from 8:30am until noon. It's the final presentation for the Chicago Minority Business Development Council (CMBDC) and Chicago Minority Business Opportunity Center's 2-day Corporate Bridges event. During my program, I'll examine how employment laws impact a business' bottom line. I'll examine the do's [...]
On October 6, 2006, I'll be presenting a 3 1/2-hour seminar, entitled "Understanding Employment Law," at the Chicago Minority Business Development Council, Inc. (CMBDC) and the Chicago Minority Business Opportunity Center's (Chicago MBOC) annual Corporate Bridges event. The event is sponsored by the Northern Trust Company and Smurfit-Stone Container Corp., and it's scheduled to take [...]
My March 25, 2006, post concerned pending legislation in Illinois: Senate Bill 2446: The Employer Meeting and Communication Act (Act). This Act is sponsored by state Senator Gary Forby, a Democrat from south-central Illinois and Chairperson of the Senate's Labor Committee. In essence, the Act severely restricts an employer's ability to communicate with employees in [...]
