Course Outline:

I. Introduction and Opening Remarks: Labor and Employment Obligations and Compliance Strategies

II. Basic Workplace Discrimination Law: Fair Employment Decisions and the Harassment-Free Workplace

III. Unpaid Wage and Overtime Claims: Proper Recordkeeping, Application of Exemptions, and Payroll Strategies

IV. Leaves of Absence and Reasonable Accommodations: Managing Family and Medical Leave, Military Leave, and Disabled Employees

V. Workers' Collective Rights: What Union and Non-Union Employers Need to Know About Employee Organizing and Unfair Labor Practices

VI. Scrutinizing Employees and Employee Privacy: Background Checks, Drug tests, Polygraphs, and Electronic Monitoring

VII. Workplace Immigration Issues: Ensuring Work Eligibility

VIII. Conclusion. Questions and Answers and Closing Remarks

About the Instructor

Chris Hammon is an attorney in Miami, Florida, and a frequent speaker on a variety of legal, human resources, and educational topics.

Mr. Hammon practices in the areas of labor and employment litigation, arbitration, counseling, and investigation.  He represents management in all variety of employment disputes before federal and state courts and administrative agencies and before various arbitral tribunals.  Mr. Hammon also provides human resources counseling advice to employers on compliance and employee management and relations issues. He has experience representing employers in a wide range of industries.  Mr. Hammon also has significant expertise assisting domestic employers with labor and employment issues relating to their operations abroad, and with counseling foreign companies on compliance issues involving their U.S. operations.

Mr. Hammon is a magna cum laude graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., where he received a number of distinctions, including induction into the Order of the Coif. During law school, Mr. Hammon also served as the editor in chief of the American Criminal Law Review.  Before law school, he graduated magna cum laude from Florida International University’s School of Policy and Management in Miami, Florida.

Mr. Hammon was named in The Best Lawyers in America by that prestigious publication. He is fluent in Spanish, being a native speaker of that language.