Employment and Wage Hour Compliance Workshop - Virtual

SESSION OVERVIEW

We are very pleased once again to offer a full-day workshop devoted to wage hour compliance for home care, home health, hospice, and other care providers.  As always, we will discuss changes that California has made to the wage hour laws that apply in our industry, especially the PAGA Reform. If you did not know, the PAGA law that has plagued us for many years has finally been overhauled in a way that is tremendously beneficial for employers. Since the home care industry has found its way onto the litigation radar, we are working to defend more and more lawsuits that allege failures by home care employers to compensate for drive time or “de minimus” time; reimburse for employees’ personal use of cell phones for work; provide employees compliant paystubs; and calculate workers’ overtime rate correctly among many other forms of alleged wrongdoing. Other topics include:

• How exactly to handle “client harassment” issues;
• New protected classifications such as “reproductive loss events” and “reproductive decision making;
• The broadening of employee protections under myriad leave laws;
• Equal pay reporting, and how to spot uneven pay practices;
• New paid sick leave requirements;
• Liz’s “secret sauce” of how to obtain signed severance agreements from departing employees; and  
• Calculating the “Regular Rate” for purposes of overtime.

Liz Murphy will guide us through these topics, as she has for many years, drawing from her 30-year career defending employers in California and, more specifically, her 20 years supporting home care owners.  It is rare but worthwhile to spend a whole day with someone like Liz, for a tiny fraction of what it would cost at her hourly rate.  Whether you have attended them before or are new to Liz’s workshops, you absolutely must attend.

Objectives:

• Compliance with the Labor Code, the Wage Orders and the many other laws governing home care owners;
• Strategies for handling sticky employee problems before they bubble into lawsuits;

• Staying ahead of the curve and ahead of your colleagues those who might be doing things differently; and
• Anything else about which you have questions or need clarification.
•  At the end of the day, you will have gained knowledge, understanding, and strategies to implement changes that will ensure compliance while minimizing risk.

FACULTY

Elizabeth (Liz) Murphy

Owner
Murphy Employment Defense

Hi all: I am now coming on 30 years of defending employers in California and other locations, with a specific emphasis in broad field of "home care" that includes RCFEs, in-home skilled and non-skilled care for the sick and elderly; Regional Center vendors; residential, memory, hospice and skilled nursing facilities; DRAs; hospitals; staffing companies; non-profits that support the mentally ill and homeless community. My clients include franchises, franchisors, independently owned, for profit and not for profit, lobbying groups, [roFor those of you in other industries, no need to feel left out. My practice also includes employers in the fields of real estate, law, manufacturing, retail, hospitality, and many others. The Firm is remote and has a broad reach allowing us to support employers in various states across the country. We support our clients in every way possible: (i) hiring to firing, (ii) creating and updating policies; (iii) providing mandatory and other forms of employee training; (iv) dayto-day advice regarding challenges of all sorts that arise during the employment relationship; (v) post-employment issues with former employees, clients, and other companies; (vi) litigation defense in single plaintiff cases, PAGA, class, and other collective actions pending in state and federal court, arbitration and before the EDD, CCRD, DIR, DOL, EEOC, Cal-Osha, and the many other agencies that enforce the alphabet soup of employment and wage hour laws; (vii) EDD, DOL and other audits; and (ix) anything else that relates to employment. I am proud of my 20-year history of teaching and coaching employers by speaking at conferences, industry meetings, industry-sponsored events, webinars, and other forms of communications to groups large and small. Our new Firm will offer regular blogs, webinars and other ways of sharing my knowledge and experience with as many employers as possible. Check me feed here, or our website for additional information: www.lmurphylaw.com.               

CANCELLATIONS

Cancellations are subject to 20% handling fee. There will be NO REFUNDS issued for cancellations received within 10 business days prior to program. Cancellations must be in writing. Refunds will not be made for no-shows. However, substitutions will be allowed. Should CAHSAH® cancel the program, a full registration fee refund will be issued.

CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS (CEUs)

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (Provider #CEP17394) for six and one half (6.5) contact hours of continuing education. Continuing Education report will be issued to attendees once attendance has been confirmed.