Join us for a fast-paced 90-minute session offering an overview of employment laws around the world.  Aimed at U.S.-based HR professionals at multinational employers, this program will focus on the key differences between U.S. employment law -- characterized by employment-at-will and the vital role of discrimination laws -- versus the very-different employment laws of the rest of the world -- laws characterized by the "indefinite" employment concept, binding employment contracts, "vested" and "acquired" rights, and paternalistic systems that impose substantial burdens on employers. 
 
We will take a topical approach, addressing topics such as: employment contracts; compensation/bonus laws; wage hour laws; discrimination laws; collective bargaining laws; data privacy laws; and regulations of terminations.  Along the way, we will address examples of specific employment laws around the world -- including from Europe, Canada. Latin America, Asia/Pacific, and Africa/Middle East.

Donald C. Dowling, Jr., International Employment Counsel at White & Case LLP in New York City, leads a team of lawyers who exclusively practice cross-border employment law for multinational employer clients.  Don and his team advise on multi-jurisdictional employment-law compliance on matters including: global M&A deals, global reductions-in-force, global codes of conduct/HR policies, global HR information systems/data privacy, and expatriates.  Don is ranked in the top tier (“Leading”) in the only competitive ranking of U.S. international labor/employment lawyers, London-based PLC Which Lawyer?, and he is ranked by Chambers as one of the top 34 labor/employment lawyers in New York.  As an adjunct law school professor he teaches International Employment Law and European Union Law.  He has spoken worldwide (in English and Spanish) and published dozens of articles on international employment and international data privacy law, including articles in law journals of the ABA and of Cornell and Northwestern University law schools, and including chapters in books published by Matthew Bender, Thomson/West, Kluwer, PLI, and Aspen.  One of his articles is excerpted in two different West Group casebooks, and another has been cited by a state supreme court.  He is a member of the advisory boards of editors of the publications EuroWatch, International HR Journal, and the International Labor & Employment Laws treatise series.
 
Who should attend?: HR professionals at multinationals with responsibilities for issues outside the U.S.  

• A Complimentary event for HR/NY members only
• This event has been approved for HRCI recertification credits

Date:
October 14, 2010

Time:
8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. (PROMPT 9 am start)

Location:
White & Case LLP
1155 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York, 10036-2787
(6th Ave. between 44th and 45th Street)
Picture ID is required for entrance to the building

Hosts: 
Don Dowling Jr., International Employment Counsel, White & Case LLP
 
Speaker: 
Don Dowling Jr., International Employment Counsel, White & Case LLP
 
Registration - New Process:
Members-Only Program Registration Procedures
In order to register for this program, please log onto www.hrny.org.  To register online for a Members-Only Program, members will be prompted to log in with their SHRM ID in order to proceed. 

We understand that in the past we have allowed non-members to attend one complimentary event prior to joining HR/NY and attending additional Members-Only events.  Under the new system, non-members will not be able to register online.  A notice will pop up indicating that since they are not a member of HR/NY.

If you are still not a member and wish to attend this program, contact 877-625-HRNY (4769) or email: .

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