Concurrent Session: COVID Vaccine Considerations for California Employers
CAHR21
Keyword(s)
California, California Employment Law, COVID, Vaccination, Vaccine, Wage & Hour, Employee Engagement, Risk Management
Concurrent Session:
COVID Vaccine Considerations for California Employers
presented by Leah Peterson & Jannine Kranz
As the COVID-19 vaccines become more widely available in California, employers must be prepared to navigate the unique and evolving legal and employee relations issues implicated by vaccination programs in the employment setting.
Learning Objectives include:
1. The legal issues that any employer vaccination program should address
2. An update on vaccination issues specific to California
3. Mandating vaccines and requests to be excused from vaccination
4. Wage and hour issues, such as compensable time and monetary incentives
5. Employee safety and privacy-related issues
Credits
HRCI - California:1.0, SHRM - PDC:1.0
Description
About the speakers...
Leah Peterson & Jannine Kranz
Leah Elizabeth Peterson (Leah Whitehead) advises and represents clients in a broad range of labor and employment law matters. During law school, Leah served as a judicial extern to the Hon. Josephine Staton in the Central District of California and was a UCLA Jones Day 1L Moot Court Competition Finalist. Before law school, she was a graduate fellow AmeriCorps member of the JusticeCorps program in the Los Angeles Superior Court, where she provided direct assistance to pro se litigants and assisted them in completing family law forms. Leah conducted workshops for litigants on the divorce and paternity process, from petition to judgment, and analyzed and reviewed family law case files to determine necessary steps for case completion.
Jannine E. Kranz represents and counsels employers in all matters of labor and employment law. Prior to joining Littler, Jannine worked at a large full service law firm where she practiced labor and employment law. She represented employers in a broad range of employment litigation matters, including defending against discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, breach of contract, defamation, whistleblower retaliation and wage and hour claims. Jannine also defended PAGA claims and wage and hour class action cases. During her tenure, she drafted a successful motion for summary judgment on a whistleblower retaliation case and drafted and argued a successful motion for summary adjudication in a disability discrimination case which resulted in the dismissal of all of plaintiff’s employment claims. Jannine also provided advice and counsel to clients on various personnel issues, including payroll, termination, medical leave and employee handbooks. Jannine previously worked at a medical malpractice defense firm, where she served as the second chair attorney in two trials, gaining valuable experience as she prepared and argued the motions in limine and other pretrial motions in addition to preparing all of the exhibits and trial documents. Both cases resulted in defense verdicts.
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