Employment Law & Regulations

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Allison West, Esq., SHRM-SCP, AWI-CH
Personal Pronouns
She/Her/Hers
Principal
Employment Practices Specialists
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For over 20 years, Allison West has used her employment law background in delivering customized workplace training, conducting investigations, coaching executives/managers, serving as an expert witness, and specializing in conflict resolution and facilitated discussions to create more collaborative work environments. 

Allison is a top-rated speaker at the SHRM Annual Conference as well as other HR/diversity conferences, and is a national expert on harassment, discrimination and investigations. She has appeared on PBS, CBS This Morning and in O Magazine discussing workplace harassment issues. 

She is a member of the State Bar of California and holds her SHRM-SCP certification and AWI-CH (investigation) certificate.

 

 

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Tammy McCutchen
Senior Affiliate
Resolution Economics
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Tammy D. McCutchen is a senior affiliate with Resolution Economics, providing expert services in the Company’s Wage & Hour and Human Capital Strategy groups.

McCutchen became affiliated with Resolution Economics in 2021. She is a nationally recognized expert in all aspects of wage and hour law. Her experience includes regulation drafting and enforcement, conducting internal compliance audits, defending agency investigations, designing compliance applications using smart technology, and serving as a consulting and testifying expert in wage and hour class and collective actions.

Prior to joining the DOL, she served as Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division at the U.S. Department of Labor. Nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, she was the country’s top enforcer of the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and wage laws affecting government contractors (the Davis-Bacon Act and the Service Contract Act). She managed an annual budget of $160 million and 1,400 employees, represented by two unions, in more than 250 offices across the country. She was responsible for the issuance of opinion letters and set enforcement policy. She also was the principal architect of the 2004 revisions to the overtime exemption regulations, the most significant overhaul of the regulations in 50 years. Since leaving DOL, she has been the principal author of numerous comments on proposed changes by DOL to the FLSA regulations, including on overtime and independent contractors. She also has defended dozens of employers facing DOL investigations of FLSA, DBA, and SCA compliance.

After serving at the DOL, she practiced law with Littler Mendelson, PC and was a founding vice president and managing director of ComplianceHR. At CHR, she directed the development of the only on-demand suite of intelligent compliance applications focused on helping employers address the ever-changing federal and state employment law requirements on minimum wage, overtime, independent contracting and more. Her Navigator IC and Navigator OT apps assess the risks of classifying workers as independent contractors and employees as overtime exempt as quickly as it takes to fill out an on-line questionnaire. She remains a Strategic Advisor for the company.

Previously, she was in-house counsel for employment at the Hershey Company, practiced law at Skadden Arps, and clerked for Honorable Daniel A. Manion on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

SESSIONS:
Monday, June 19, 2017 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm
Zev Eigen
global director, Data Analytics
Littler Mendelson, P.C.
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As Littler’s global director of data analytics, Dr. Zev J. Eigen guides HR departments to strategically tap employee and applicant information when making business-critical decisions. He combines a data scientist’s mindset with a shrewd knowledge of labor and employment law in the delivery of precise and practical workplace-related counseling. A frequent speaker on machine learning algorithms and statistical analysis, Zev has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Forbes and by NBC, CBS and Fox, among others. He has taught at a number of universities, including Northwestern School of Law, Yale Law School and Kellogg School of Management.      

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Marko Mrkonich
shareholder
Littler Mendelson, P.C.
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Marko Mrkonich is a Shareholder in Littler’s Minneapolis office. He focuses his practice on discrimination and other employment litigation, client counseling, and traditional labor law issues. Marko routinely counsels clients on the proper handling of terminations, discipline decisions, leaves of absence and all aspects of personnel management. He devotes extensive efforts to training and education and frequently speaks on a wide variety of employment topics, including the topic of big data and how it is changing the employment landscape. Previously Littler's president and managing director, Marko is a founding member of the Minneapolis office where he formerly held the position of office managing shareholder.

SESSIONS:
Wednesday, June 21, 2017 - 11:30am to 12:45pm
Matthew Verdecchia
senior trainer/organizational development
EAP+Work/Life Services
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Matt Verdecchia, MS, CEAP, is Senior Trainer/Organizational Development with Health Advocate’s EAP+Work/Life division. Matt specializes in the development and delivery of customized training programs at all organizational levels, as well as risk assessment, consultation, and mediation.

Matt has more than 30 years of experience in the behavioral health field, including clinical, consulting and administrative duties in various settings. Previously, Matt worked as Senior Clinical Manager and Account/Marketing Executive for several different hospitals’ and facilities’ Employee Assistance Programs.

Matt received his BS in Psychology from St. Francis College and his Masters of Science in Organizational Science/Human Resources from Villanova.

SESSIONS:
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - 7:00am to 8:15am
Steven Johnson, SHRM-CP
human resources coordinator
Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County
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Steven is the human resources coordinator at the Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County (Indianapolis, Indiana).  His experience includes all areas of human resources, with specific focus on compliance, employee relations and training and development.  He holds an MBA from Western Governors University and a bachelor’s degree in theatre from Indiana State University.  His experience ranges from human resources positions in healthcare and manufacturing companies to directing and producing theatrical productions.  Perhaps most surprisingly, the skills used to direct plays and musicals transfer very well to human resources.  Investigating and advising on employee matters and corralling actors are remarkably comparable – following policies or following scripts, doing them the right way builds an efficient workforce and gets a standing ovation!

SESSIONS:
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - 7:00am to 8:15am
Beth Baerman
product communications director
Attendance on Demand
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Beth Baerman is Director of Compliance and Communications for Attendance on Demand and is an expert in time and labor management. She has over 20 years’ experience in workforce management, product management, technical communications, and training.
 
Baerman is a frequent speaker about labor compliance and compliance trends. Recently, she addressed national conferences for the American Payroll Association, Society for Human Resource Management, American College of Health Care Administrators, and others. Baerman is engaging and passionate about helping businesses achieve workforce management optimization and helping organizations respond to the growing complexities of compliance regulations.
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Kelly Dobbs Bunting
Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
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Kelly Bunting, Co-Chair of the Greenberg Traurig, LLP's Labor & Employment Practice's Workplace Compliance & Counseling Group, and member of its Artificial Intelligence Law Group, has considerable experience defending class and collective wage and hour litigation and misclassification claims, having defended employers in Title III ADA access litigation and litigation alleging race, sex, pregnancy, age, disability discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. She is deeply experienced in virtually all aspects of employment litigation, including wage and hour, labor, Title VII, harassment, discrimination, wrongful termination, non-competition and non-solicitation, trade secrets, SOX and Dodd Frank whistleblower claims, CEPA, ADEA, FMLA, NJLAD, and failure to accommodate issues. She has identified and managed employment issues in M&A deals and appeared before the EEOC, NLRB, and DOL in many states, as well as state agencies in DE, NY, NJ and PA. Kelly has represented many clients in mediation and settlement negotiations, and created HR and compliance training modules. She is regularly sought after as a workforce trainer for issues related to harassment and discrimination, FCPA compliance, good management techniques, and union awareness.

Kelly focuses much of her practice on international L&E issues, including employment/secondment contracts, data privacy, and global anti-corruption compliance. She advises clients on national and international handbook policies, procedures, and strategic HR issues, and provides day-to-day counsel in hiring, employee relations, employee discipline, and termination. She also conducts and advises on internal investigations.

SESSIONS:
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - 7:00am to 8:15am
Margaret P. Spence
president/CEO
C. Douglas & Associates, Inc
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Margaret Spence is the founder of The Employee to CEO Project and CEO of C. Douglas & Associates. Inc. It is her mission to champion the advancement of women into executive leadership. Her new book, Leadership Self-Transformation ask women two simple questions, what do you want from your career and why don’t you have it now? It’s her feeling that you cannot get the corner office until you get clear about what you want and why you want it.  Margaret is a keynote speaker, leadership development coach, corporate consultant, and the author of three books. Learn more about Margaret at her website: www.MargaretSpence.com

 

 

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Steven Brown
senior director-Global Mobility
Nike
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Steve works for Nike where he is the Senior Director of Talent Mobility.  Steve's team is developing Nike’s Talent Mobility strategy in support of the company’s broader Human Capital agenda. Steve’s team also manages Nike’s expatriate assignments with a fully integrated service model which includes immigration, relocation, tax, and mobility policy. Steve has 25 years experience in in a variety of HR and finance disciplines including talent planning, expatriate management, immigration, tax, total rewards, and accounting. Before joining Nike in 2016, Steve spent 19 years at Accenture in a variety of roles focused on talent mobility. Steve has also worked at Novell and at Ernst & Young.  Steve holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of California and Masters degrees in Business Administration and Accounting from Northeastern University, Boston.

SESSIONS:
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - 10:45am to 12:00pm
Zev Eigen
global director, Data Analytics
Littler Mendelson, P.C.
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As Littler’s global director of data analytics, Dr. Zev J. Eigen guides HR departments to strategically tap employee and applicant information when making business-critical decisions. He combines a data scientist’s mindset with a shrewd knowledge of labor and employment law in the delivery of precise and practical workplace-related counseling. A frequent speaker on machine learning algorithms and statistical analysis, Zev has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Forbes and by NBC, CBS and Fox, among others. He has taught at a number of universities, including Northwestern School of Law, Yale Law School and Kellogg School of Management.      

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Marko Mrkonich
shareholder
Littler Mendelson, P.C.
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Marko Mrkonich is a Shareholder in Littler’s Minneapolis office. He focuses his practice on discrimination and other employment litigation, client counseling, and traditional labor law issues. Marko routinely counsels clients on the proper handling of terminations, discipline decisions, leaves of absence and all aspects of personnel management. He devotes extensive efforts to training and education and frequently speaks on a wide variety of employment topics, including the topic of big data and how it is changing the employment landscape. Previously Littler's president and managing director, Marko is a founding member of the Minneapolis office where he formerly held the position of office managing shareholder.

SESSIONS:
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - 10:45am to 12:00pm