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Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLC
and the
United States Chamber of Commerce
Present
W. Melvin Haas III, Managing Member,
Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLC
Michael D. Malfitano, Managing Member,
Constangy Brooks & Smith, LLC
And
Randel Johnson, Vice President Labor,
Immigration & Employee
Benefits,
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
The Democratic Congress and Your Bottom Line:
Do You Know What Organized Labor
Has Planned for Your Business?
Two Dates and Locations!
In the 2004 and 2006 elections, organized labor
spent in excess of $100 million dollars to support certain candidates.
Now that many of these candidates have been elected, organized
labor is expecting significant changes favoring their ability to
organize your workforce, and expanding the panoply of rights already
given to American workers. Some alarming messages have already
come from Congress, including the passage of the Employee Free
Choice Act in the House of Representatives and the Senate's passage
of a bill to allow the TSA screeners at airports to unionize. In
order to be prepared for the future, business leaders need to be
aware of the initiatives on Capitol Hill. Please join us
as we discuss the Democratic legislative agenda in the 110th Congress
and the impact of these policy decisions. The shocking legislative
initiatives include:
- The Employee Free Choice Act: Congressional
Democrats propose eliminating secret ballot elections in union
organizing campaigns, significantly increasing penalties for unfair
labor practices, and requiring mediation and arbitration in the
negotiation of first collective bargaining agreements.
- Amendments
to the National Labor Relations Act: Congressional
Democrats propose reversing the NLRB's decision in the recent
Oakwood decision related to the supervisory status of charge
nurses and make it more difficult to classify workers as supervisors
(thereby exempting them from the NLRA).
- FMLA Expansion: There are a variety
of ways that the FMLA can be expanded-all of which would disturb
the carefully negotiated balance that allowed the law to pass
in 1993, including lowering the number of employees a company
must have to be covered by the law, and mandating paid leave.
A wide array of bills has been introduced in both the House and
Senate in recent congresses to pursue these goals.
- Amendments to Title
VII Damage Caps: A top priority of Sen. Kennedy, since enactment
of the Civil Rights Act Amendments of 1991, has been repealing
the caps on compensatory and punitive damages, currently maxing
out at $300,000.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Lunch & Discussion: 11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Location: One Ninety One Club
191 Peachtree Street NE
Suite 400
Atlanta, GA 30303
OR
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Lunch & Discussion: 11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Location: Tampa Marriott Waterside
700 South Florida Avenue
Tampa, FL 33602
RSVP by April 20 to Candace Langston 404-230-6763
or clangston@constangy.com
**Please include: Name (s), Title (s), Company, phone number and
date that you are attending with e-mail address for confirmation.
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