Lunch with a Lawyer – Legal Update Presentation Materials. The end of 2025 and beginning of 2026 have seen a flurry of labor and employment law legislation and activity at the regulatory agencies. Partner Dawn Lanouette presented on the new Trap Act and how it may affect your employee training programs and reimbursement, new restrictions on using credit reports in employment decisions, changes to contractor reporting of certified payroll for prevailing wage projects, new DOL interpretations related to Family and Medical Leave Act, bonuses, and exemption criteria, OSHA update and more.
Lunch with a Lawyer – Presentation Materials. Partner Dawn Lanouette presented Leadership in Difficult Times Series: Global Tensions, Local Impact: Managing Workplace Dynamics in Challenging Times. (Thursday, November 20). Hot topics include how to decide when arguments rise to the level that an employer might get a discrimination or harassment claim; when off-duty conduct is protected vs. problematic; how as employer to navigate strong opinions and religious differences; and what employers can do to keep the rising divides from sabotaging the workplace?
Lunch with a Lawyer – Presentation Materials. Partner Dawn Lanouette presented Labor and Employment Federal and State Labor Employment Update (Wednesday, June 11). Hot topics includes EEOC enforcement priorities, wage and hour audits and prevailing wage issues.
Lunch with a Lawyer – Presentation Materials. Partner Dawn Lanouette presented Labor and Employment Legal Update (Wednesday, April 9). Hot topics includes employee handbooks.
Lunch with a Lawyer – Presentation Materials. Partner Dawn Lanouette presented Labor and Employment Legal Update (Thursday, March 20). Hot topics includes the new New York Paid Maternity Leave Law and best practices for managing pregnancy and bonding leaves.
Lunch with a Lawyer – Presentation Materials. Partner Dawn Lanouette presented “You Can’t Say That in My Workplace! Or Can You?” (Friday, September 20). Hot topics includes the rules on what employers can, and can’t do about speech in the workplace.
