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Agenda Speakers 2 3 AGENDA SPEAKERS 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 WAGE & 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 employment 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 Retirement 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 BREAK 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 . Education 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, employee benefits, 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 OVERTIME 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 dismissal 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 {Farisello} NEW HAVEN | STAMFORD | WATERBURY | LITCHFIELD | SOUTHBURY | carmodylaw.com 4 5 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, sexual harassment 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.
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