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insurance, retailers, banks, and 8 am 12 pm LORI ALEXANDER Office Managing Shareholder | Littler manufacturing companies, among others. CHECK-IN & NETWORKING NETWORKING LUNCH Mendelson, P.C. | @Littler Alexander is one of three founding BREAKFAST members of Littler Mendelson’s New Haven 1 pm Lori Alexander has extensive office. 8:30 am & HOUR JEOPARDY! experience representing Before joining Littler, Alexander was a companies throughout WELCOME Mark Soycher, HR Counsel, CBIA partner at a general practice firm in New Connecticut in a range Haven. In law school, she was an editor of Mark Soycher, HR Counsel, CBIA of labor and matters, 1:30 pm the Connecticut Law Review. including complex employment litigation, 9 am HOURS WORKED: DEFINING, discrimination claims, wrongful discharge, retaliation cases, labor arbitrations, VINCENT FARISELLOVincent Farisello STATE LEGISLATIVE UPDATE COUNTING & RECORDING Partner administrative charges, Employee Phone: 203.578.4284 Vice President, Government Affairs, Partner, Carmody Torrance Partner | Carmody TorranceFax: 203.575.2600 Sandak & Eric Gjede, Vincent Farisello, Email: [email protected] CBIA Sandak & Hennessey LLP Income Security Act benefits Hennessey LLP Office: Waterbury litigation, employment arbitrations, and 9:30 am 2:15 pm other disputes between employers and Vincent Farisello maintains a Vincent maintains a versatile practice in the areas of labor and employees. employment and general corporate law. Vincent’s clients include closely versatile practiceheld and public in businesses, the areas non-profit organizations, independent EXEMPT OR NOT? THE SHIFTING FLSA TEMPS, TELECOMMUTERS, TRAVELERS schools, municipalities and start-ups. In many cases, he acts as such of labor andclient’s employmentgeneral counsel. LANDSCAPE & CONTRACTORS She represents clients in state and federal and generalVincent’s corporate labor and employment law. practice focuses on counseling and Office Managing Shareholder, Partner, Kainen, Escalera & courts and before the Equal Employment advising employers on all aspects of the employment relationship. He Lori Alexander, Patrick McHale, Farisello’s clients includeworks closelywith clients toheld manage and risks and formulate strategies to avoid litigation and to comply with regulatory obligations. Vincent regularly Littler Mendelson, P.C. McHale, PC Opportunity Commission, the Connecticut represents employers in mediations, arbitrations, labor negotiations, public businesses, non-profitcontract negotiations organizations, and defends employers before administrative Commission on Human Rights and agencies such as the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and independent schools, Opportunities,municipalities, Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission, National 10:15 am 3 pm Opportunities, and the Connecticut Labor Relations Board, State Board of Labor Relations and federal and Practicestart-ups. Areas In many cases,state Departmentshe acts ofas Labor. general Vincent is frequently invited by employers and industry groups to speak and present training seminars on a variety of Department of Labor. common employment issues. NETWORKING INTERACTING WITH THE . Corporatecounsel. & Business . Labor & Employment Vincent also regularly represents clients in many other aspects of their DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Alexander also regularly advises employers . Start@Carmody operations, including entity formation, mergers and acquisitions, real . estate transactions and leasing, contracts and corporate governance 10:30 am Farisello’s labor and employmentmatters. practice Moderator: Mark Soycher, CBIA HR Counsel on reviewing and developing internal . Municipal & Government focuses on counseling and advising Assistant District Director, U.S. policies and procedures, developing and Experience CRITICAL COMPENSATION STRATEGIES Sarah Thomas, Educationemployers on all aspects of the employment Department of Labor, Wage & Hour Division, presenting training related to sexual . Vincent represented a municipal employer in connection with three Carol Kardas, Founding Partner, KardasLarson, . Universityrelationship. of Connecticut SchoolHe works withconcurrent clients union organization to campaigns covering three bargaining Hartford District Office harassment and other human resource of Law, Law School units. Vincent then successfully negotiated “first contract” collective LLC J.D. 2006 bargaining agreements with all three unions. ~ withmanage honors risks and formulate. Acts as strategiesprincipal outside employment counsel to a large, multinational Jonathan Trumbull, Wage & Hour Investigator, issues, including train-the-trainer, hiring . Fairfield University, engineering outsourcing firm. He works closely with the client to Undergraduateto avoid litigation and todevelop comply and implement with human resources strategies, multistate 11:15 am Wage & Workplace Standards, Connecticut and firing decisions, , and B.A. 2003 employment policies and strategies for enforcing restrictive Department of Labor ~ summaregulatory cum laude obligations. Farisellocovenants. regularly a variety of investigations including those . Acts as outside general counsel on all employment and corporate represents employers in relatedmediations, matters to several large wholesale distribution companies SELF-AUDITING involving claims of discrimination. Bar Admissions operating throughout the Northeast and mid-Atlantic. 4 pm arbitrations, labor negotiations,. Successfully representedcontract regional symphony orchestra in objection to EXEMPTIONS . Connecticut petition filed by labor union to represent orchestra musicians. negotiations ,and defendsObtained employers of petition by the State Board of Labor Relations Meredith Diette, Partner, Berchem Moses PC Her clients include telecommunications, on the grounds that musicians were properly classified as ADJOURN Court Admissions independent contractors and therefore not covered by State Labor before administrative agenciesRelations Act. such as the . State of Connecticut

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Connecticut Commission on Human Rights Association of Central Connecticut. She Employment Opportunity Commission, and Gjede serves as an appointed member of and Opportunities, Equal Employment holds the designation of certified senior state and federal courts. Prior to joining the the Connecticut Department of Labor’s Opportunity Commission, National professional in human resources, certified firm, she was a Shareholder at Siegel, Employment Security Advisory Board. Labor Relations Board, State Board of compensation professional, and senior O’Connor, O’Donnell & Peck, P.C. in Hartford He also serves on the Second Injury Fund Labor Relations and federal and state certified professional by the Society for and New London. Advisory Board. He is a member of the Departments of Labor. Farisello is frequently Human Resource Management. She is Connecticut Bar Association and the invited by employers and industry groups a member of Colonial Total Rewards Diette is a member of the Connecticut Association of Connecticut Lobbyists. to speak and present training seminars on Association, HRACC and SHRM. Additionally, Bar Association and the New London Bar a variety of common employment issues. she holds certifications in Advanced Association, and is on the Board of Directors Prior to CBIA, Gjede was an associate Vincent also regularly represents clients Employee Relations Law, Myers Briggs, DISC for the Human Resource Leadership legislative attorney with the Legislative in many other aspects of their operations, and The Ennegram. Association of Eastern Connecticut. She Commissioners’ Office, the nonpartisan including entity formation, mergers and is a member and trustee of the Chamber legal office of the Connecticut General acquisitions, real estate transactions She has been a featured speaker for of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut and Assembly. and leasing, contracts, and corporate several organizations on human resource past president of the Rotary Club of New In that position, he provided legal counsel governance matters. and personal development topics. She is a London. Diette is a regular lecturer on published author on topics of compensation topics including employee handbooks, to the members of the General Assembly’s and market pricing, generational hiring practices, in the committees on Commerce and Labor and CAROL KARDAS differences, management and leadership of workplace, wage and hour law compliance, Public Employees. He also drafted all the Founding Partner | KardasLarson, LLC employees, human resources in not-for- and other employment law issues. She is legislation and amendments considered by @KardasLarson profit organizations and recently had a a graduate of the University of Maryland those committees. second printing of Financial Overview for at College Park and Boston College Law Gjede earned his J.D. at the University of Carol Kardas is recognized as an the HR Business Partner. School. Connecticut School of Law and also holds outstanding human resource a bachelor’s degree from the University of generalist with an expertise in Kardas holds a bachelor’s degree in Connecticut. compensation, training and psychology from Fordham University and a ERIC GJEDE organizational development, coaching and master’s degree in human resources from Vice President | Government Affairs, employee relations. She has diverse Villanova University. CBIA | @CBIANews PATRICK MCHALE industry experience in manufacturing Partner | Kainen, Escalera & McHale, PC not-for-profit organizations, healthcare, real Eric Gjede is vice president for MEREDITH DIETTE government affairs with CBIA, estate, public accounting and financial Patrick McHale represents Partner | Berchem Moses P.C. Connecticut’s leading business services. She is known for her ability to public and private employers @BerchemMosesPC organization. work with client companies to create an and non-profit organizations in efficient human resource department and Meredith Diette advises private, He represents the views of Connecticut all aspects of labor relations provide ongoing strategic leadership non-profit and municipal clients businesses on labor, employment, and and employment law, including union coaching. She is an acknowledged on laws governing the transportation issues. He serves as CBIA’s representation elections, collective counselor. Additionally, her strength is in employment relationship, and state ethics compliance counsel. bargaining, contract administration, compensation for small to medium size assists clients during collective bargaining personnel policies and practices, wage and companies. and binding arbitration proceedings. Diette He also directs CBIA’s Labor and hour disputes, equal employment Employment Law Council and helps support opportunity, employment litigation, Kardas has been actively involved in the represents employers in negotiations, the organization’s Taxation and Finance occupational health and safety, workers’ human resource community and is a hearings and trials before the National Committee. compensation, past president of the Human Resource Labor Relations Board, the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, the Equal compensation, and related matters. His 6 7

practice includes representation of County Bar Associations; Connecticut Public discussing how national and state she participates in local public outreach employers in federal and state courts and Employer Labor Relations Association; employment laws affect individuals and events whenever possible. before the American Arbitration Industrial Relations Research Association; employers in Connecticut’s workplaces, and Association, the National Labor Relations International Personnel Management on how best to plan and apply workplace Board, the Connecticut State Board of Association. strategies that anticipate and avoid legal JONATHAN TRUMBULL Mediation and Arbitration, the Connecticut disputes. Wage & Hour Investigator | Wage & State Board of Labor Relations, the Workplace Standards, Connecticut Connecticut Freedom of Information MARK SOYCHER Soycher holds a bachelor’s degree in Department of Labor | @CTDOL Commission and various other Counsel, Human Resources Services psychology from Rutgers University, a administrative agencies. | CBIA | @HRHotline | Director of master’s in special education from William Jonathan Trumbull is a wage Legislative Affairs | CT SHRM | @SHRM Paterson College, and a law degree from and hour investigator with the McHale has been selected to be listed in New York Law School. Connecticut Department of The Best Lawyers in America in the practice Mark Soycher is human Labor’s wage and workplace areas of Employment Law – Management resource counsel at CBIA, the He is a member of the Connecticut and standards division, a position he has held and Labor Law – Management since 2009. state’s leading business American bar associations, and he serves on since 1999. He has also been selected as a Connecticut organization. the executive committee of the Connecticut and New England Super Lawyer: Bar Association’s labor and employment Trumbull has a bachelor’s degree in criminal Employment and Labor from 2007-2016. Soycher has over 30 years’ experience law section. science from Westfield State College and In addition, he has received a peer review guiding Connecticut employers and earned his law degree at Franklin Pierce rating of BV Distinguished from Martindale- employees through the maze of laws and SARAH THOMAS Law Center (now the University of New Hubbell. regulations affecting their workplace, Hampshire School of Law). providing legal assistance with all workplace Assistant District Director | U.S. Dept. of McHale was named the Best Lawyers’ 2013 problems, from hiring to firing. Labor, Wage & Hour Division, Hartford Hartford Labor Law – Management Lawyer District Office | @USDOL COMING EVENTS Soycher returned to the state’s largest of the Year. Only a single lawyer in each  practice area in each community is honored business organization in July 2002 as labor Sarah Thomas joined the SEXUAL HARASSMENT as the Lawyer of the Year. and employment counsel for CBIA’s Human workforce at the young age of PREVENTION TRAINING Resources Services Department, which 13 and has developed extensive Middletown, 9.19 & Windsor, 10.31 He received a bachelor’s degree cum laude has experienced growth to almost 14,000 knowledge in a variety of in 1986 from Fairfield University and juris personnel-related inquiries annually from industries. She is a graduate of Quinnipiac  PROPERTY TAX & FIXED ASSET doctorate magna cum laude in 1991 from member companies. University and Quinnipiac University School WORKSHOP Western New England College School of Law, and after a short stint in real estate Hartford, 9.25 of Law in Springfield. He is admitted to Soycher was in private law practice from law, she joined the wage and hour division practice before the state and U.S. district 1990-2002. From 1983 to 1990, he served as of the US Department of Labor in 2010.  MADE IN CONNECTICUT: 2019 courts of Connecticut and U.S. Court of counsel at CBIA, providing members with Since joining wage and hour she has MANUFACTURING SUMMIT Appeals for the Second Circuit. advice on labor and employment issues. conducted numerous investigations under Trumbull, 10.25 Before that, Soycher was general counsel all of the laws enforced by the agency, but Visit cbia.com/events to register. McHale is a frequently requested speaker for the Associated General Contractors of she hung up her hat as a field investigator on employee relations and labor and Connecticut, a construction industry trade when she became the Assistant District employment law at functions sponsored association. Director of the Hartford District Office in Conference materials available by various professional associations and early 2019. Sarah travels with wage and at cbia.com. He is a frequent guest speaker at trade employer organizations. He is a member hour to teach the components of various Choose Events > Past Event Highlights. and professional association seminars, of the American, Connecticut and Hartford laws to colleagues around the country, and