McAfee & Taft's Spring 2009
Labor & Employment and
Employee Benefits Seminar

Besieged by mounting legislative, regulatory and economic pressures, employers are facing some of their toughest challenges and decisions yet. Layoffs, salary freezes, changes in benefits and company reorganizations are commonplace, and employee protections are on the rise.  The result:  increased responsibilities for employers and employee benefits plan sponsors, and an increased propensity to file lawsuits by employees.  In these tough times, the roles of HR and benefits professionals have never been more important.

McAfee & Taft's “The Bottom Line” Spring 2009 Labor & Employment and Employee Benefits Seminar addressed many of the most critical issues facing HR and benefits professionals today. Below are downloadable resources from the seminar.

Seminar Booklet

Individual presentations:

• Navigation Tough Times: Bottom-Line Analysis of Critical Workplace Issues (Opening Session)
• Downsizing and Reductions in Force
  Reductions in Force (RIFs), alternatives to RIFs, and the benefits implications of such decisions
• Employment Law Update (slide presentation)
  Employment Law Update (printed materials)
  Noteworthy changes to federal and Oklahoma state labor and employment laws
• Employee Free Choice Act
  Paving the way for increased union organization in the workplace
• Family and Medical Leave Act
  The new FMLA regulations are here
• Retirement Plans in a Chaotic Market
  What every plan fiduciary needs to know
• Changes and New Initiatives from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, featuring guest speaker David Bates, OSHA Area Director

BONUS MATERIALS:

• McAfee & Taft's Outlook 2009
  Legal and Business Insights for Today's Challenging Times
• PremierSource's Strategic HR Solutions for Maximizing the Bottom Line in 2009
• Downsizing Done Right (Recorded webcast)
• Employee "Forced" Choice Act (Recorded webcast)

RESOURCES REFERENCED DURING SEMINAR:

• PremierSource, human resources and employee benefits consulting, including a no-obligation complimentary diagnostic analysis of existing benefits plans.
• COBRA Model Notices
• FMLA
  • Form 384 - FMLA Certification of Qualifying Exigency for Military Family Leave (Downloadable PDF)
  • Form 385 - FMLA Certification for Serious Injury or Illness of Covered Servicemember - for Military Family Leave(Downloadable PDF)
• Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9)
  • Download Form I-9 English (Rev. 2/2/09)
  • Download Form I-9 Spanish (Rev. 2/2/09)

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

• U.S Department of Labor (DOL)
• Bureau of Statistics (BLS)
• Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
• U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
• Code of Federal Regulations
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• Oklahoma Department of Labor
• Oklahoma Employment Security Commission
• Oklahoma Worker's Compensation Act - Oklahoma State Title 85
• Oklahoma Legislature
• Oklahoma State Courts Network (OSCN)
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• National Workers' Compensation Defense Network
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• Labor and Employment Laws of the Fifty States,
  District of Columbia and Puerto Rico 
  (published by Cornell University Law School)
• U.S. Code Collection
  (published by Cornell University Law School)
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• Oklahoma Employment Law Letter
• HRhero.com, an online resources to help human resource professionals find quick answers to their employment law and management questions
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• Oklahoma State Council for Human Resource Management
• Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)