TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Thursday, May 5 |
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Business Meeting |
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12:00 p.m. | 1:30 | Board of Directors Lunch Meeting Open to all AGC Labor and Employment Law Council members. Advanced function registration required (no extra fee). |
Symposium Sessions |
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1:40 | 2:00 | Check-In |
2:00 | 2:15 | Chairman’s Welcome Remarks & Self-Introductions Judith Williams-Killackey | Quarles & Brady | Milwaukee, WI |
2:15 | 2:30 | AGC of America Update Denise Gold | Associated General Contractors of America | Arlington, VA |
2:30 | 3:15 | DOL Enforcement Priorities and Trends Seema Nanda | Solicitor | U.S. Department of Labor | Washington, DC |
3:15 | 3:45 | Unwelcome Guests – the NLRB and Union Rights to Access Private Property Timothy (Tim) Kamin | Ogletree Deakins | Milwaukee, WI |
3:45 | 4:00 | Break |
4:00 | 4:50 | A Legal and Actuarial Review of Withdrawal Liability Calculation Issues Ben Ablin | Horizon Actuarial Services | Washington, DC Thomas (Tom) Vasiljevich | Ogletree Deakins | Chicago, IL Grace Ristuccia | Ogletree Deakins | Washington, DC |
4:50 | 5:20 | Down the Regulatory Rabbit Hole with Thorns: The Growth of Government-Imposed Penalties Against Construction Employers Robert Fried | Practus | Leawood, KS/San Francisco, CA |
Networking Events |
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7:00 p.m. | End | Dinner Open to dinner registrants and their guests. Advance function registration and extra payment required. |
Friday, May 6 |
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Symposium Sessions |
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8:00 a.m. | 8:25 | Continental Breakfast |
8:25 | 8:30 | Introductory Remarks Judith Williams-Killackey | Quarles & Brady | Milwaukee, WI |
8:30 | 9:20 | Current Issues at the NLRB’s Affecting Construction Employers: General Counsel’s Perspective Jennifer Abruzzo | General Counsel | National Labor Relations Board | Washington, DC |
9:20 | 10:10 | COVID: Lessons Learned and Continuing Issues Karl Sorensen | Lusardi Construction | San Marcos, CA Mike Schechter | AGC of Minnesota | St. Paul, MN Travis Vance | Fisher Phillips | Charlotte, NC |
10:10 | 10:20 | Break |
10:20 | 10:50 | COVID: Lessons Learned and Continuing Issues |
10:50 | 11:20 | Biden’s Executive Order on PLAs: Something Old, Something New… Jordan Howard | Associated General Contractors of America | Arlington, VA |
11:35 | 12:25 | The Primary Strike – What’s Protected, What’s Unprotected, and What the NLRB and/or Congress Might Change Richard (Rick) Samson | Ogletree Deakins | Chicago, IL |
12:25 | 1:30 | Charles E. Murphy Keynote Address & Lunch Lauren McFerran (Invited) | Chairman | National Labor Relations Board | Washington, DC |
1:30 | 1:40 | Transitional Break |
1:40 | 2:40 | Modular Construction and the Implications for 8(e), Project Labor Agreements, and Prevailing Wage Laws Gregory (Greg) Begg | Peckar & Abramson | River Edge, NJ Robert (Bob) Roginson | Ogletree Deakins | Los Angeles, CA Brian Shire | Susanin, Widman, & Brennan | Berwyn, PA |
2:40 | 3:10 | Open Forum for Discussion |
3:10 | 3:15 p.m. | Introduction of New Chairman & Closing Remarks |