National Webinar: Don’t Be Caught Off Guard: HR Law Updates You Need to Know for 2024

Program Description:

With a presidential election, an active Supreme Court, legal marijuana, and a solar eclipse, 2024 is set up to be an interesting year (to say the least)! Unfortunately, all of this amounts to increased challenges and legal pitfalls for employers.

Whether you are a seasoned human resource professional, experienced corporate counsel, or the new HR generalist, join us as we cover the latest changes and challenges facing employers, including:

• How to manage political, social justice, and other speech that impacts the workplace; 
• The new regulations under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act; 
• The impact of Ohio’s marijuana law on employers; 
• The challenges created by requests for religious accommodations after the Supreme Court’s Groff decision; 
• Navigating DEI after the Supreme Court’s Harvard decision; 
• And a host of other Olympic-sized issues we expect to see in 2024, including remote work issues, ADA challenges, pay equality concerns, and independent contractor scrutiny. 

Patricia Anderson Pryor is the office managing principal of the Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, and Louisville, Kentucky, offices and is also a client solutions leader of Jackson Lewis P.C. Patty is an experienced litigator in both state and federal courts, representing and defending employers in nearly every form of employment litigation, including class actions.

Patty is a core team member of the firm’s Disability, Leave & Health Management practice group. As a leader of the COVID-19 Taskforce, she has advised hundreds of companies across the country on everything from vaccine mandates, to remote work challenges, to safe return to work policies and practices.

When she is not fighting COVID-19, Patty represents and advises employers in federal and state administrative proceedings, in all forms of dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration, and in managing all aspects of the employment relationship. She has represented employers before the EEOC, the DOL, the DOJ, OSHA, the OFCCP, and the NLRB, in addition to various state agencies.

Patty also works with employers to avoid litigation by developing effective policies and practices, including harassment policies, social media policies, FMLA practices, attendance programs, affirmative action programs and wellness plans. She conducts proactive wage and hour audits, harassment investigations and compensation/pay equity reviews.

She is a frequent speaker at legal seminars and to employers and professional groups and provides training to managers and human resource professionals on a wide variety of employment and legal issues, including wage and hour issues, harassment, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, pay equity and affirmative action obligations. She has been featured on the radio program “Employment Straight Talk” and has published a number of employment law articles.