Cost:
1-2 attendees: $150.00 each
3-9 attendees: $135.00 each
10 or more attendees: $110.00 each

Cost: $75.00

Cost: $50.00 per session, per connection site

In short: there’s much COBRA work to be done in the coming weeks. We discuss the DOL’s model notice, any clarifications from DOL and IRS to the questions created by the statute as well as the common questions posed by our clients and friends during the last several weeks. The webinar will focus on how these developments affect employer conduct from now until 2010.

Whereas our COBRA webinar earlier this month covered the actual changes in the law, this webinar will be more "hands-on, how-to." If you were unable to attend our earlier webinar, a recording of the session is available for purchase on our website: http://www.lehrmiddlebrooks.com/events.htm. This is likely the best way to understand the Stimulus COBRA’s basics.
COST: $50.00

Please contact Mike Thompson at mthompson@lehrmiddlebrooks.com or 205-323-9278 or Donna Brooks at dbrooks@lehrmiddlebrooks.com or 205-226-7170 with any questions you have regarding this issue.

Under existing law, if a minimum of 30% of an employer’s workers sign union authorization cards, the union may ask the National Labor Relations Board to hold a secret ballot election for employees to vote on whether to unionize. Under EFCA, if just half plus one of an employer’s workers sign those cards, the union is automatically formed without a vote of any kind. Even more troubling for employers is the provision of the bill where a federal government arbitration board would settle terms for a first contract between the employer and union.

The union landscape has changed substantially. Private sector union representation has increased during the past two years. Employers and industries historically not threatened by unions have to start thinking differently about them now; and those that are already familiar with the union threat have to rethink their defenses. Labor unions have friends in high places throughout the Obama Administration and Capitol Hill. Unions spent a fortune last year working for the election of politicians sympathetic to their legislative agenda and they will stop at nothing to force this bill into law. The Service Employees International Union (“SEIU”) has pledged to spend $50 million in 2009 alone, campaigning for the passage of EFCA.

We: (1) Discuss the current status of EFCA and the likely scenarios for its progress through Washington; (2) Demystify the legislation and arm employers with the critical facts you and your employees need to know about it—facts that most reports on the bill are overlooking or neglecting to provide; (3) Examine in detail the best employer options for fighting the legislation now and communicating to the workforce about EFCA and unions; and (4) Provide employers with a practical, step-by-step strategy for remaining union-free in the face of a recharged, reinvigorated, and aggressive union movement.

Cost: $75.00

(1) Practical implications of recent wage and hour developments;
(2) Steps you can take now to avoid the compliance pitfalls that get most employers into litigation or other trouble with DOL including employee misclassifications, comp time, time-clock rounding, meal breaks, off-the-clock work, donning/doffing, and child labor.
(3) If you're a federal contractor subject to the Davis-Bacon Act or Service Contract Act, stay tuned for the last half hour as we discuss key compliance requirements for anyone performing (or bidding to perform) under federal contract.

Cost: $75.00 per connection site, with no limit on the number of participating attendees at each site.

To submit questions, please send an e-mail to dbrooks@lehrmiddlebrooks.com.

The program has been approved for two hours of HRCI Credit.

Cost: The registration fee for this webinar is $75 per connection site, with no limit on the number of participating attendees at each site.