CLE: Employment in the Time of Corona: Protections for Workers During the Pandemic

  • 28 May 2020
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Webinar

Registration

  • includes one-year membership in the NLG-NYC

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  • The Labor & Employment Committee of the 
    National Lawyers Guild - New York City Chapter
    presents

    EMPLOYMENT

    IN THE TIME OF CORONA

    PROTECTIONS FOR WORKERS

    DURING THE PANDEMIC
    A CLE (Continuing Legal Education) program
    (1 NY CLE Credit in Professional Practice) 

    This lunch-and-learn CLE will cover representing and advising workers in Covid-related employment disputes.  The panelists will cover three broad topics to help you advise your clients, friends, and family members through these trying times.  First, we will cover tips on how to navigate NY’s unemployment process for who’ve lost their jobs or can’t work because of COVID.  Second, we will outline the new laws that have been enacted to protect workers’ jobs while they take time off to quarantine, isolate, or care for a family member.  Finally, we will address how familiar workplace laws, like the NLRA, ADA, OSHA, and NYLL, can be applied to COVID-related firings, discrimination, and accommodations.  Our panelists will be available to answer questions at the end of the presentation.

    With Distinguished Speakers

    Saranicole A. Duaban, Associate, Goddard Law PLLC

    Tana Forrester, Associate, Kessler Matura P.C.

    Moderated by Leo Gertner, Attorney

    May 28, 2020   12:00 - 1:00 pm

    Transitional/Non-transitional Credits

    This event is free for NLG-NYC members, law students, and legal workers. 

    The registration fee for non-members is $50, which includes a one-year membership in the National Lawyers Guild – New York City Chapter.

    Fee waivers upon request to: gkaske@kesslermatura.com

    Registration required

    Videoconferencing information and link to materials provided upon registration.

    Transitional/non-transitional. Under CLE regulations, credit will be offered only to those attorneys completing entire program; attorneys attending only part of the program are not eligible for CLE credit. Certificates will be sent upon receipt of completed verification of attendance form following the program.

    The New York City Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild has been certified by the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board as an Accredited Provider of Continuing Legal Education in New York State


    Submit your questions through the Zoom chat.  The moderator will submit your questions to the speakers

    BIOGRAPHIES

    Saranicole Duaban

    Saranicole Duaban has dedicated her career to representing employees.  As an associate at Goddard Law, she represents employees in cases of discrimination, retaliation and wage and hour violations.  Saranicole received her Juris Doctor at the George Washington University where she was on the executive board of the Moot Court Board and represented employees in the Public Justice Advocacy Clinic.  After law school, she worked at MFY Legal Services in the Workplace Justice Project on discrimination, wage and hour and reentry claims.  Before joining Goddard Law, she worked at two other employment law firms where she successfully mediated discrimination and wage and hour claims, represented employees in mass arbitrations and litigated class and collective action cases.  Saranicole is a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association New York Chapter (“NELA/NY”) where she is the chair of the Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Committee.  She served on the board of NELA/NY from 2016 to 2018.  She is also a member of the American Bar Association and Federal Bar Association.  She is admitted to practice in New York State and the Eastern and Southern District of New York.  She has also practiced at the American Arbitration Association and National Arbitration and Mediation.

    Tana Forrester

    Tana Forrester is an associate at Kessler Matura P.C.  Ms. Forrester represents employees in discrimination, harassment, retaliation and unpaid wage claims.  Her discrimination practice includes advocating for employees in pregnancy discrimination, sexual harassment, race discrimination and disability discrimination claims.  Ms. Forrester’s wage and hour work includes representing employees misclassified as exempt from overtime laws and those forced to work off-the-clock. Ms. Forrester received her law degree from the City University of New York School of Law, where she concentrated her studies on employees’ rights. As part of her clinical education at CUNY’s Workers’ Rights Project she represented employees as a student attorney in wage theft actions in federal court.

    Leo Gertner

    Leo Gertner is a labor and employment attorney barred in Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia. He has worked at the National Employment Law Project in Washington, D.C., and as a Norm Gleichman Fellow at SEIU, where he provided legal support for a campaign to unionize low-wage airport workers. In addition, he was a Peggy Browning Fellow at the United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh. Before law school, Leo served as a grievance representative at SEIU 32BJ District 615 representing janitors and security officers throughout New England. His writing on labor has been published inIn These Times,The American Prospect,The Washington Post, and other publications.