February 24: Vaccine Mandates: Red Light, Green Light & Where to Go From Here

Prepare for implications of policy developments on your workers and your workplace. As more employers return to the office, businesses and the law firms advising them will be forced to face tough questions around vaccine policies and implementation.
Do employers have to treat vaccinated and unvaccinated workers the same? Can employers keep unvaccinated workers out of common spaces or separate their workstations? Do employers have a duty to protect workers from harassment based on their vaccination status? Should employers revise their vaccine policies to account for booster shots?
As legal professionals advise on these contentious areas of labor and employment, they must also be keenly aware of the fast-paced federal and state legislative actions influencing the guidance they provide.
This webinar is designed to help in-house and external counsel answer questions about creating and implementing a worker vaccine program as we enter the second full year of the pandemic. Our panel of experts will discuss the latest developments around vaccine mandates, the questions around religious and disability exemptions, and offer practical tips to help employers stay in compliance and avoid potentially unsafe and costly penalties.
Learning Objectives:

• Understand the legal, business, and workplace implications of employer vaccine mandate policies across key employer types and industries.
• Address issues around vaccinated vs. unvaccinated workers including potential physical separation, questions around harassment, ADA questions and more.
• Learn how to avoid common pitfalls of vaccine mandate programs.
• Understand best practices for receiving and responding to worker objections and accommodation requests.

Title:
Vaccine Mandates: Red Light, Green Light & Where to Go From Here

Webinar Date/Time:
Feb 24 2022, 1:00 PM EST
1:00 PM EST •12:00 PM CST •11:00 AM MST •10:00 AM PST 

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Cost:
Free
Speakers:

• Ron Peppe is Executive Vice President for Canam Steel Corporation, and oversees legal, human resources, IT, risk management, and health, safety, and environmental issues. Ron has also served as VP Law and Technology for the Association of Corporate Counsel, and Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Prudential Home Mortgage. Ron is the co-chair of the ERISA subcommittee of the ACC Employment and Labor Law Committee and previously served as co-chair of the ACC Environment and Sustainability Committee. Ron has served as a member of the City Council and as Chairman of the School Board of Falls Church, Virginia and was President of the Board of Education of Frederick County, Maryland. He holds a BA from Johns Hopkins University, an MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a JD from the University of MD School of Law.
• Jonathan Segal is a partner at Duane Morris LLP in its Employment Group. Previously a litigator, Jonathan’s practice focuses on maximizing legal compliance, minimizing legal risk and marrying culture with compliance. More specifically, Jonathan’s work includes counseling, policy development, training and strategic planning. For the past 18 months, COVID-19 has been the primary focus of Jonathan’s practice. Jonathan delivered his first webinar on the employment issues arising out of COVID-19 in the first week of February 2020. Since then, Jonathan has participated in webinars on COVID-19 for legal, business and HR groups, including Bloomberg Law. Jonathan is also well published on the issue, again, including by Bloomberg Law.
• Natalie M. Stevens is a shareholder in the Cleveland, Ohio office of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. She concentrates her practice on conducting and providing guidance regarding workplace investigations, counseling employers and management on compliance with workplace laws and regulations, and handling settlement negotiations, administrative proceedings, mediation, arbitration, and litigation on a myriad of employment-related matters. Additionally, in response to the Coronavirus pandemic, Natalie has led Ogletree Deakins’ COVID-19-related employment litigation tracking team in developing an Interactive COVID-19 Litigation Tracker, and has presented in several forums regarding trends in this area, as well as prevention, mitigation, and defense strategies. She has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America in the practice area of Employment Law – Management (2021 and 2022) and by Ohio Super Lawyers Magazine in the practice area of Employment Litigation: Defense as a Rising Star (2013-2019) and Super Lawyer (2021 and 2022).
• Moderator: Francis Boustany is a Legal Analyst on the Corporate analysis team, focusing on labor and employment law. In previous roles, he served as a management consultant and a director of advisory services, focusing on labor and employment law compliance, employee relations, process improvement, and technology implementation and adoption. He received his B.A. from Louisiana State University in Mass Communication, his M.A. from Louisiana Tech University in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and his J.D. from Louisiana State University.

Credit:
1.0 General COA, 1.2 CLE in most states.
By:
Bloomberg Law
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