Multistate Handbooks: Multitasking Policies Effectively
Learn to develop and maintain a multistate employee handbook that handles federal NLRB, EEOC and PPACA issues, state leave and disability laws, and conflicts between states.
Speaker
Deirdre Kamber Todd
Employment attorney · The Kamber Law Group, P.C. · JD, Hofstra University
Overview
Every employer with staff in more than one state faces a mix of state laws, federal mandates and legal conflicts. This 90-minute multistate employee handbook webinar explains how to develop and maintain a high-quality handbook that works across jurisdictions.
You'll review common federal issues in handbook drafting, including NLRB, EEOC and PPACA concerns, and common state issues around disability, pregnancy and leave.
The session also covers best practices for resolving conflicting state laws, navigating federal versus state standards, and deciding when to adopt a general policy versus a state-specific one.
Why attend: A strong, direct employee handbook is an employer's first line of defense and a go-to guide for workplace issues, while a poor one can undermine the workplace. Multistate employers need a handbook that stays accurate and dependable across every state where they operate. The session suits HR directors, business directors and company officers involved in employee relations or human resources.
What’s covered
- Common federal issues in multistate handbook drafting: NLRB, EEOC and PPACA
- Common state issues: disability, pregnancy and leave
- Best practices for resolving conflicts between state laws
- Navigating federal versus state legal standards
- General policy adoption versus state-specific policy changes
Who should attend
What you get
About the speaker
Deirdre Kamber Todd, Esq., is a partner with The Kamber Law Group, P.C., a next-generation law firm located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With fifteen years of experience, Deirdre focuses her practice on labor and employment law, social media and technology law, HIPAA, and business law. Specific areas of her employment law practice include discrimination, wage and hour, restrictive covenants, business contracts, unemployment compensation, LGBT issues, labor disputes, FMLA, military leave, social media litigation, information privacy and technology, agency compliance, and medical record privacy.
Her clients include companies, non-profits, governmental entities, and individuals. Her work includes consultative and legal services, from outsourced HR and social media services to hearings, litigation, and appellate work. She also regularly provides training and education for companies and individuals. She is licensed to practice in New York, Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Supreme Court, and she also has been admitted as an expert witness in social media and networking.
Deirdre is the recipient of a number of awards and recognitions: she was selected as one of the “Top 20 Under 40” by the Pennsylvania Business Journal, she received the Ethics Award from the New York State Bar Association, she received a grant from the Public Justice Foundation for her pro bono work on HIV/AIDS, and she was recently nominated as one of the top twenty-five women of influence in the Lehigh Valley.
Aside from the practice of law, she serves as the President and Diversity Chair for Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) Lehigh Valley. She currently teaches as an adjunct professor at DeSales University in the MBA Program in both the HR and Healthcare Concentrations. She has earned her Juris Doctor from Hofstra University School of Law, a distinguished master’s degree in International Studies from the University of Limerick, in Limerick, Ireland, and a bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University.
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