6-Hour Program

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Overview

Cross-Border Employment Law 2021

Why You Should Attend

The global workplace is changing—more rapidly than expected. The global pandemic has thrust upon multinationals workplace changes that were only imagined a few months or years ago. This full day event will focus on key issues facing multinational employers. As always, we will bring together an impressive, first-class group of highly experienced and sophisticated practitioners, in-house counsel, and senior human resources executives from around the world. They will present, in a practical way, how best to advise the multinational employer, HR professional and employee on these critical issues and more.

What You Will Learn

  • Consider how companies function with remote workforces, the impact of technology, protection of trade secrets and privacy rights across the workforce, flexible working and the right to disconnect, and other key issues
  • Learn how our experts are managing, and surviving, a government audit or investigation; protecting data, gathering discovery and harmonizing practices across borders
  • Analyze privacy in the international workplace, including employees’ “digital footprints,” and restrictions on social media checks, monitoring of employee privacy, cross-border issues after the “privacy shield,” and privacy issues in working from home
  • Examine best practices when engaged in a cross-border workforce restructuring, including a merger or acquisition including but not limited to aligning global policies and practices pre- and post-restructuring.
  • Analyze key differences between U.S. and overseas legal frameworks and union/management relationships, multi-natiional unions, how unions and works councils differ, and how employers can most effectively work with unions and works councils
  • Discuss how multinationals, and the international legal community in particular, are responding to issues such as Black Lives Matter, and the push to increase diversity across borders

Special Features

  • Earn one hour of Diversity & Inclusion/Elimination of Bias credit
  • NY Transitional credit available, including up to two full hours of Professional Skills credit

Who Should Attend
General counsel and outside counsel for U.S. and overseas-based multinationals, in-house international and labor counsel, and human resources executives will benefit from this program  

 

 



Lecture Topics [Total time 00:07:00]

Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program.


  • Opening Remarks* [00:08:27]
    Philip M. Berkowitz
  • The Future of Work Across Borders “Post-Pandemic" [01:03:55]
    Philip M. Berkowitz, Felice N. Gray-Kemp, Rayne Towns, Dr. Gerlind Wisskirchen
  • Preparing for a Cross Border Government Audit or Investigation in 2021 [01:01:23]
    Michael D. Mann, Vijay Dewan, Prof. Dr. Klaus-Stefan Hohenstatt, Shaun Z. Wu
  • Privacy in the International Workplace [00:59:22]
    Daniela Hangarter, Philip L. Gordon, Frances Phillips Taft, Hironobu Tsukamoto
  • Workforce Restructurings, Including M&A, Across Borders [01:00:08]
    Roselyn S. Sands, Anders Etgen Reitz, Martin L. Schmelkin, Jillian Naylor
  • Working With International Trade Unions [01:16:38]
    Dr. Roland Gerlach, Anna Jerndorf, Wilma B. Liebman
  • Diversity & Inclusion in the Global Legal Workplace [01:01:45]
    Frances Anderson, Felice N. Gray-Kemp, Wendi S. Lazar, Alice Mony Decroix

The purchase price of this Web Program includes the following articles from the Course Handbook available online:


  • COMPLETE COURSE HANDBOOK
  • Philip M. Berkowitz and Trent M. Sutton, Ch. 21: International Labor and Employment Law, Practising Law Institute, International Corporate Practice: A Practitioner’s Guide to Global Success (February 2021)
    Philip M. Berkowitz
  • The Future of Work Across Borders “Post-Pandemic,” An EU Perspective (February 23, 2021)
    Gerlind Wisskirchen
  • Michael D. Mann and Norman M. Hobbie, Jr., Protecting the Attorney-Client Privilege in Cross Border Investigations
    Michael D. Mann
  • Klaus-Stefan Hohenstatt and Thomas Granetzny, The European Perspective: How Employment Law and GDPR Impact Global Investigations?
    Klaus-Stefan Hohenstatt
  • Updates on Managing Internal Investigations in China: Navigating New Risks for Multinational Corporations (February 2021)
    Shaun Z. Wu
  • German Labor Courts and the GDPR—An Overview (February 1, 2021)
    Daniela Hangarter
  • Philip L. Gordon and Andrew R. Gray, Practical Steps for Managing Cross-Border Transfers of HR Data in the Wake of the CJEU’s Decision in Schrems II
    Philip L. Gordon
  • Protection of Personal Information in Japan
    Hironobu Tsukamoto
  • Workforce Restructuring and Adjustments in France
    Roselyn S. Sands
  • Global HR Risk Management—How Mature Is Your Company?
    Anders Etgen Reitz
  • Martin L. Schmelkin, JoAnna Tonini and Grace Gale, Key Employment Law Considerations in Cross-Border Restructurings and M&A Transactions Involving European Entities (February 22, 2021)
    Martin L. Schmelkin
  • Section 1. Representation of Workers, Trade Unions and Works Councils
    Roland Gerlach
  • Anna Jerndorf and Lisa Ericsson, Working with Unions in Sweden (February 2021)
    Anna Jerndorf
  • Gender Diversity in the Legal Profession and the COVID Catalyst (March 4, 2021)
    Frances Anderson
  • Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Workplace, France (March 2021)
    Alice Mony Decroix
  • Diversity and Equity in the US Legal Profession: The Studies Say Not Yet
    Wendi S. Lazar

Presentation Material


  • The Future of Work Across Borders “Post-Pandemic," PowerPoint Slides
    Philip M. Berkowitz, Felice N. Gray-Kemp, Rayne Towns, Dr. Gerlind Wisskirchen
  • Privacy in the International Workplace, PowerPoint Slides
    Philip L. Gordon, Daniela Hangarter, Frances Phillips Taft, Hironobu Tsukamoto
  • Workforce Restructurings, Including M&A, Across Borders, PowerPoint Slides
    Jillian Naylor, Anders Etgen Reitz, Roselyn S. Sands, Martin L. Schmelkin
  • EY, Global Labor and Employment Law Strategic Topics, Workforce Transformation and Restructuring in 2021
    Roselyn S. Sands
  • Diversity & Inclusion in the Global Legal Workplace, PowerPoint Slides
    Frances Anderson, Alice Mony Decroix, Felice N. Gray-Kemp, Wendi S. Lazar

Why You Should Attend

The global workplace is changing—more rapidly than expected. The global pandemic has thrust upon multinationals workplace changes that were only imagined a few months or years ago. This full day event will focus on key issues facing multinational employers. As always, we will bring together an impressive, first-class group of highly experienced and sophisticated practitioners, in-house counsel, and senior human resources executives from around the world. They will present, in a practical way, how best to advise the multinational employer, HR professional and employee on these critical issues and more.

What You Will Learn

  • Consider how companies function with remote workforces, the impact of technology, protection of trade secrets and privacy rights across the workforce, flexible working and the right to disconnect, and other key issues
  • Learn how our experts are managing, and surviving, a government audit or investigation; protecting data, gathering discovery and harmonizing practices across borders
  • Analyze privacy in the international workplace, including employees’ “digital footprints,” and restrictions on social media checks, monitoring of employee privacy, cross-border issues after the “privacy shield,” and privacy issues in working from home
  • Examine best practices when engaged in a cross-border workforce restructuring, including a merger or acquisition including but not limited to aligning global policies and practices pre- and post-restructuring.
  • Analyze key differences between U.S. and overseas legal frameworks and union/management relationships, multi-natiional unions, how unions and works councils differ, and how employers can most effectively work with unions and works councils
  • Discuss how multinationals, and the international legal community in particular, are responding to issues such as Black Lives Matter, and the push to increase diversity across borders

Special Features

  • Earn one hour of Diversity & Inclusion/Elimination of Bias credit
  • NY Transitional credit available, including up to two full hours of Professional Skills credit

Who Should Attend
General counsel and outside counsel for U.S. and overseas-based multinationals, in-house international and labor counsel, and human resources executives will benefit from this program

 

 

Credit Details