Speaker Profile
SUSAN FAHEY DESMOND
Susan Fahey Desmond is a principal with Jackson Lewis PC. She has been representing management in all areas of labor and employment law for over 30 years. A noted author and speaker, Ms. Desmond is listed in Best Lawyers in America and has been named by Chambers USA as one of America’s leading business lawyers.
Susan Fahey Desmond
May 15 2024
01 : 00 PM EST
90 Minutes
Documenting Misconduct that Will Stand up in Court
It is estimated that 60-70%o f litigation is employment-related. Let’s face it. If you stay in business long enough, your company will inevitably be sued. The time to prepare your defense begins before that suit is filed. Juries look to your documentation when they are making the decision of whether you ran afoul of the law. At the same token, plaintiff attorneys try to pick apart your documentat..
Susan Fahey Desmond
June 25 2024
01 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
Handling FMLA Abuse
Congress passed the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to ensure job protection for those who needed to take leave from their employment due to serious illnesses. Most employees do not abuse this entitlement; however, there are a select few who always want to beat the system. Those who abuse FMLA are headaches for both the employer and co-workers who have to pick up the slack. Unfortunately, when an employ..
Susan Fahey Desmond
Recorded Webinar
90 Minutes
Employer Recordkeeping Obligations
There are many legal requirements for employers when it comes to record retention. Laws such as Title VII, the Immigration Reform and Control Act, and ERISA, to name a few. Employers must follow regulations published by many federal agencies: the Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission, the Department of Labor, the Internal Revenue Service, and more. How do you store these records? Can you store records..
Calculating Overtime Correctly under the Fair Labor Standards Act
Lawsuits under the Fair Labor Standards Act have reached an all-time high. The Department of Labor estimates that 87% of all employers are not in compliance with their obligations to pay overtime to non-exempt workers. Even employers with the best intentions find themselves violating some aspect of the Fair Labor Standards Act. In addition to misclassification issues, employers fail to recognize what time m..
Diversity & Inclusion Excellence Through Social Intelligence
For you to achieve outstanding diversity & inclusion results requires strong social intelligence, the ability to evaluate and influence other people’s social interactions. Our evolutionary background has resulted in unconscious bias and other problematic mental patterns (called cognitive biases) that lead to tribal behaviors, undermining D&I initiatives. To deal with tribalism, pioneering organizati..
Employer Policies from Documentation through Retention - Best Practices in 2019
One-hour webinar covering employer requirements when it comes to documentation for the workforce. We will highlight several of the larger employment regulations that result in the most impact on employers: FLSA, Equal Employment, OSHA, and best practices regarding performance and other documentation regarding employees.Areas CoveredRegulatory requirements for documenting and retaining employmentDeep dive of..
Handling Employee Leaves of Absence
There are close to a dozen different types of medical leave, between statutory and non-statutory types of leave. Understanding and applying them correctly can be a big challenge. It is extremely easy for even the most meticulous employer to get lost in all the definitions, details, and purposes behind various leaves. Susan Fahey Desmond, a labor and employment law expert, will elaborate on federal and state..
Handling FMLA Abuse
Abuse under the Family and Medical Leave Act touches every employer. They are difficult cases because you must deal with it (or you lose your good employees because they are doing their co-workers’ work) but at the same time, you almost assuredly setting yourself up for a retaliation suit. How do you put your company in the best legal position while dealing with abuse? Since the Family and Medical Leave Act..
Implementing the ACA, HIPPA, GINA, ADA, and Title VII Discrimination Laws into Your Organization’s Wellness Strategy
The federal government believes wellness programs can cut healthcare costs and decrease the cost of employer-sponsored health insurance by promoting health and preventing disease. The new federal regulations have divided wellness programs into two types with specific rules for each. A major piece of the regulations addresses the issue of employment discrimination based on health/disability, age, gender, and..
Onboarding is Not Orientation, Improving the Employee Experience
In this webinar, we will learn the reasons onboarding is important today. We will learn that the terms orientation and onboarding are not interchangeable. We will learn that orientation is in reality just one step in the onboarding process. We will learn that the onboarding process begins before the hire is made.Areas CoveredThe points covered in this webinar include:The cost of turnoverThe steps involved..
Setting Up a Modern Remote Work Culture
It’s all integrated; having a modern work culture, utilizing technology to the best available, being flexible, having proper succession planning, having a vision, and treating people as humans rather than a resource. It’s all part of successful leadership. Employees are contribution focused, wanting to work with a purpose, and don’t value jobs so much as they value missions they agree with. They ..
The Unthinkable: Violence in Healthcare from Bullying to an Active Shooter
The healthcare environment creates a major challenge in the prevention and intervention of violence. The rate of injuries and illness from violence in the healthcare industry is more than three times greater than violence in all private industries. Healthcare organizations include hospitals, outpatient clinics, medical office clinics, home health care, home-based hospice, paramedic, and emergency medical se..