Employer Tips for the Los Angeles Wildfires:
Knowing Your Role in Protecting Workers’
Health, Safety, and Workplace Rights
presented by Nicole Kamm & Andrew Sommer
Many employers have questions addressing the workplace-related issues facing their California employees in the wake of the Los Angeles County wildfire outbreaks. California employers have a legal duty to provide a safe and healthy workplace under Cal/OSHA regulations, including assessing hazards from items like wildfire smoke, fire proximity, and unsafe conditions before employees return to work.
Join Fisher Phillips Partners, Nicole Kamm and Andrew Sommer, for this one-hour webinar that will address the practical questions that most often arise during and in the aftermath of natural disasters in addition to legal obligations you need to consider.
Nicole Kamm
Partner, Fisher Phillips | Woodland Hills & Los Angeles
Nicole Kamm is a Partner in the Woodland Hills and Los Angeles offices of Fisher Phillips. She represents a broad range of clients, from small businesses to national companies, in a variety of industries, including healthcare, technology, manufacturing, retail, hospitality, construction, transportation and professional services. Nicole defends employers and provides dispute resolution counsel against individual and class claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, and wage and hour violations before state and federal courts and administrative agencies. Nicole also provides strategic counsel and management training on employment issues that arise in the workplace, including hiring, discipline and termination decisions, leaves of absence, reductions in force and compliance issues arising under Title VII, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, the California Family Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the California Labor Code and Industrial Welfare Commission wage orders, and the federal and California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.
Andrew Sommer
Partner, Fisher Phillips | Los Angeles
With more than two decades of employment litigation experience, Andrew Sommer defends businesses in workplace safety inspections, investigations and enforcement actions brought by Cal/OSHA and other OSHA state programs. He is also highly experienced in defending individual and collective actions involving a wide array of wage and hour, whistleblower, disability, and wrongful termination claims. Andrew also advises employers on workplace safety compliance, disciplinary actions, and the interactive process, among other work-related topics. Andrew takes a strategic and creative approach in providing advice and counsel to employers as well as resolving disputes in court and administrative proceedings.
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