Monday, April 7, 2008

Greater Dallas Chamber presents 20th annual Employment Law Update

By Pegasus News wire

DALLAS — The Greater Dallas Chamber, together with Haynes and Boone, LLP, is hosting the 20th Annual Employment Law Update. The seminar will educate employers on how to deal with the ever-increasing volume and variety of workplace-related lawsuits and instruct on how to implement employment law best practices in your organization.

This interactive and case-study-oriented employment law seminar will offer a comprehensive overview of topics like employee discrimination/EEO, the Family Medical Leave Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act and more. Discussion topics include: Looking Ahead: What to Expect from a New Occupant in the White House and New Congress?; Employees Gone Wild: When Blogs, MySpace and Cyberactivities Invade the Workplace; and Protecting a Company’s Most Precious Assets: Retaining Key Employees, Company Trade Secrets and Confidential Information.

Human resource professionals and corporate attorneys are encouraged to attend the seminar to learn best practices to: avoid costly litigation and judgments, hire, discipline and terminate legally, develop legally compliant HR, and protect yourself and your organization from ill-advised employment decisions

This year’s Employment Law Update will be held on April 9 at Cityplace Conference Center from 8:00 AM – 4:15 PM. Cost is $100 for Chamber members, $125 for the general public and $75 for repeat attendees or groups of 2 or more.

This course has been approved for MCLE credit by the State Bar of Texas Committee on MCLE in the amount of 5.75 credit hours, as well as 5.75 CPE credit hours. This program has also been approved for 5.75 of (General) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI).

To register, visit www.dallaschamber.org workforce.

Source: Greater Dallas Chamber

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