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$65.00 advance registration

$50.00 for co-sponsors

$75.00 at the door

Please make checks payable to Rutgers University and mail to

Laura Walkoviak

Rutgers University

Labor Education Center

50 Labor Center Way

New Brunswick, NJ 08901

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Phone 732-932-9503, Fax 732-932-8677

Ninth Labor Management Partnership Conference

Labor and Employment Law: Recent, Pending and Proposed Changes

Friday, May 13, 2016

Labor Education Center

Rutgers University

We would like to thank the NJEA for its generous support for this conference

The Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations is pleased to invite you to the Ninth Labor-Management Partnership Conference, sponsored by the New Jersey Education Association.

This year’s theme –

“Labor and Employment Law: Recent, Pending and Proposed Changes” -- considers a range of issues important to labor relations and employment relations nationally and in New Jersey.

•  panel I examines the many controversial issues stemming from the emergence of franchising and joint employer status

•  panel II examines recent developments in labor and employment law and how these changes have impacted workers, unions and employers

Other program topics that will be addressed include the following:

•  reflections on how the NLRB and the workplace have changed over the course of the past 40 years by the Region’s Director of the NLRB

•  labor enforcement issues

•  facts about imminent and significant changes that will reestablish the rules around overtime and other wage and hour matters

•  ideas around what it would take to bring our nation’s labor and employment laws into line with the realities of the world of work in the 21st Century

Agenda

8:30 am—9:00 am Registration and

Continental Breakfast

9:00 Introduction and Welcome

Adrienne Eaton, Associate Dean, Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations

9:15 Franchising and Joint Employer Issues Panel Discussion

Wilma Liebman, Lawyer, Civil Servant, Visiting Research Fellow, Rutgers University and Former Chair of the National Labor Relations Board - Moderator

Marshall Babson, Labor & Employment Department in the New York and Washington offices of Seyfarth Shaw LLP and Former Member of the National Labor Relations Board

Catherine Ruckelshaus, General Counsel & Program Director of the National Employment Law Project

10:30 Break

10:45 New Developments in Labor and Employment Law Panel Discussion

Tamara Lee, Professor, Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations and Former Staff Attorney for the National Labor Relations Board

James M. Cooney, Teaching Instructor, Rutgers University School of Management Labor Relations and arbitrator

Carla Katz, Teaching Instructor, Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations and an attorney with the law firm of Cohen Placitella Roth

12:00 Lunch

12:45 “My 40 Years with the NLRB: How the World of Work Has Changed”

David Leach – NLRB Region 22 Director

1:15 Labor Law Enforcement

Janice Fine, Associate Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University

2:15 Break

2:00 Update on Overtime Rule Changes and Their Impact

Jonathon Cohen, Partner, Plosia and Cohen Law Firm

2:30 “What Would It Take To Bring Labor and Employment Laws Into Line For the 21st Century?”

Cynthia Estlund, Catherine A. Rein Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law

3:15 Final Comments and Closing Remarks

Dr. James Hayton, Dean of the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University

$65.00 advance registration

$50.00 for co-sponsors

$75.00 at the door

Includes Continental Breakfast and Lunch

Register Early—Limited Seating

Conference location: the Auditorium of the Labor Education Center, 50 Labor Center

Way, in New Brunswick.

Directions can be found at

http://maps.rutgers.edu/directions.aspx?id=179

Questions? Contact Laura Walkoviak

Labor Studies & Employment Relations Dept.

50 Labor Center Way

New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Phone: 732-932-9503

Fax: 732-932-8677

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