When: Thursday, March 16, 2017, from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Where: Social Law Library, John Adams Courthouse, One Pemberton Square, Boston MA
Cost: $60 — Social Law Library Members $120 — Non-Member

Social law Library and Lawyers Weekly present:

Jeffrey L. Hirsch, Esq

Author of Labor and Employment
Law in Massachusetts
Partner, Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP


You will learn the latest statutory, regulatory, and judicial developments
involving:
• United States Supreme Court and First Circuit Court of Appeals cases
involving:
       • U.S. Department of Labor regulations
       • Accrual of constructive discharge claim and limitations
       • Title VII’s Fee Shifting Provisions and Definition of “prevailing party”
       • Mixed Motives, circumstantial evidence and discrimination
       • ADA “Reasonable Accommodation” Request and “Essential
Function” Performance

• Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decisions regarding employees
“self-help,” FMLA, and assessing punitive damages in sexual harassment

• The recently passed Massachusetts Equal Pay Act, Marijuana Act, Transgender
Restroom/Locker Room Bill and new OSHA regulations

• NLRB Standards for hiring replacement workers during economic strikes,
graduate students and research assistants deemed “employees,” and
anticipated Changes in NLRB Policy on Section 7 rights

• Discussion of recent news with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
United States Department of Labor, Massachusetts Commission
Against Discrimination, Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and
Workforce Development


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