Event Details
SHRMA Meeting: This Year's Legal Buzz: What's Brewing for Employers in 2025
| Date: | February 11, 2025, 11:30am |
| Organizer: | Gayle Young |
| Location: | Broadway Commons, Keizer Room, Second Floor 1300 Broadway St NE, Salem, OR 97301 Free Parking on street, or in lots behind and across from the building |
| Price: | SHRM Members $25.00; Non-Members $30.00; Students $10.00 |
| Event Type: | Meeting |
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February membership meeting
- Tuesday, February 11, 2024
- 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
- Broadway Commons, Keizer Room #205, 2nd Floor (accessible by elevator or stairs)
- This will be an in person meeting. Lunch will be provided.
Our Topic: This Year's Legal Buzz. What's Brewing for Employers in 2025.
Join SHRMA and Courtney McFate as she shares today’s most pressing challenges for employers. We will learn about important changes and key updates to:
- Hiring
- Wage and Hour Laws
- Workforce Management
- And other Federal, Oregon & Washington employment laws that have taken effect in the new year
There is bound to be some golden nuggets and even some homework with best practice suggestions (maybe even a prediction or two) in our future with information to take back to our offices.
This is a great time to grab some lunch, settle in, and learn along with your peers for this in-person program with Courtney McFate, employment attorney from Epstein, Becker & Green. This program is designed for anyone with HR responsibilities to aide us on what is head our way and to be prepared. This is also a great time to ask questions so bring them along….and bring your co-workers too!
Our Guest Speaker: Courtney McFate
Attorney Courtney McFate offers employers timely, insightful, and strategic legal advice on a wide range of employment litigation and compliance matters.
Employers of all sizes turn to Courtney to represent them in pre-litigation and administrative matters; single-plaintiff litigation, including harassment, discrimination, and retaliation cases; and complex litigation, such as wage and hour class actions and actions under California’s Private Attorneys General Act. She is experienced in defending employers before the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the California Civil Rights Department, the Oregon Bureau of Labor & Industries, and the Washington State Human Rights Commission, among other administrative bodies. Additionally, she represents employers in connection with U.S. Department of Labor audits.
A trusted advisor, Courtney provides guidance to employers on a range of employment-related compliance matters. This includes advising on employee hiring processes, terminations, leaves of absence, reasonable accommodations, and the creation of employee handbooks. She also addresses complex issues surrounding compensation, commission plans, and pay equity, as well as considerations related to workforce reductions and termination of employment, including severance agreements. Additionally, Courtney provides advice on arbitration agreements and programs, employee confidentiality agreements, executive agreements, and executive severance considerations.
Courtney also regularly presents on employment law issues for human resources professionals, business owners, and executives.
Before joining Epstein Becker Green, Courtney was a partner at a regional law firm, where she focused on labor, employment, and benefits issues. Prior to that, she was in-house employment counsel for a large consumer services company in California, acting as a strategic legal partner for human resources and all business units. Early in her career, Courtney served as a judicial extern in the Pro Se Department of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
SHRMA is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDC) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities.
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