New Year New Laws: California 2025 Legal & Compliance Program
3175 Bowers Ave.
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Event Time: 9:30 a.m.–3:30 pm PT
Overview
Get ready for 2025 with insights into the latest California workplace regulations. Top-tier employment law attorneys will guide you through new laws and bills taking effect from January 1, 2025, and beyond.
We'll cover critical areas to prepare your organization and leadership team for compliance and potential litigation, including:
- Navigating AI in the Workplace
- Employee Leaves and Accommodations
- California Rules for Pay Transparency
- Wage and Hour Compliance
- California Employment Discrimination & Harassment
- New OSHA Requirements
- Remote/Hybrid Work & Telecommuting
Join us for an in-depth session and ensure a compliant and effective 2025.
Program Cost
SHRM Member: Early Bird $169 through January 10th
SHRM Member: Standard $199
Non-Member: Early Bird $389 through January 10th
Non-Member: Standard $419
Join Now: Early Bird $369 through January 10th
Join Now: Standard $399
Program Agenda:
9:30-10:00
Registration, Network with sponsors + Coffee Break
10:00-11:15
AI Bootcamp: What You Need to Know to Use AI in the Workplace
Speaker: Anthony Isola, Esq. , Fisher Phillips
Artificial Intelligence has taken the world by storm since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022. Despite the talk about the transformational impact of AI, what exactly everyone means when they mention AI (and what AI technology looks like in the workplace) remains fuzzy. This presentation aims to deconstruct the hype by explaining what the different types of AI are, discuss how employers could be already using them in the workplace, provide tools for weighing the legal risks and benefits of using AI, and summarize some of the most recent legislation in this evolving area of law. This presentation will cover everything employers need to know to best leverage AI and how to avoid common pitfalls that could lead to lengthy litigation.
11:20-12:40
New Labor and Employment Laws for 2025
Speaker: Erika Frank, Esq., California Lawyers Association
Get head of the New Year before the ball drops! Learn about recently enacted laws that will impact your workplace in 2025! Session highlights include:
- Minimum Wage Increases
- What you can and cannot talk about under SB 399, known as the “captive audience” meeting ban
- Expanded use of paid sick leave and new protections for crime victims
- Leaves of absence
- Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) Reform
- New workplace postings
12:40-1:15
Lunch and networking with sponsors
1:15-2:25
California Rules for Pay Transparency and Wage and Hour
Speaker: Jeanine DeBacker, McPharlin, Sprinkles & Thomas, LLP
Wage and Hour Update! Are you complying with California’s pay transparency rules? Have you taken all possible steps to guard against expensive wage and hour litigation? In this session, Jeanine DeBacker will talk about the basics of compliance, plus what really happens during the litigation of these matters – what documents must you be able to provide that shows you are complying with the laws?
2:30-3:30
Workplace Safety and CalOSHA Requrements
Speaker: Joshua Henderson, Jackson Lewis, P.C.
- This session will cover the latest new OSHA, CalOSHA, and other California workplace safety laws and regulations for the following:
- New indoor heat illness prevention standards in California and OSHA’s proposed national heat safety standard
- Protections for agricultural workers during fire, floods and high heat emergencies
- Policies, training and recordkeeping requirements for Workplace Violence Prevention Plans
- preparing for the end of the CalOSHA COVID-19 non-emergency regulations including recordkeeping obligations
- OSHA's Final Rule to Amend the Hazard Communication Standard
Speakers
Anthony Isola, Esq.
Partner, Fisher Phillips
Anthony Isola is an attorney that helps employers with legal issues affecting the workplace, including matters concerning the rapidly evolving subject of employee privacy. In particular, he assists employers with compliance with a variety of privacy laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act. When providing guidance to clients related to legal issues concerning electronic employment data, Anthony draws on his prior professional experience as a software engineer. He also frequently presents and authors articles on topics related to data privacy.
Erika Frank, Esq.
Vice President and Legal Counsel for the California Hospital Association
Erika Frank is Vice President and Legal Counsel for the California Hospital Association where she specializes in labor and employment, workers’ compensation, workplace safety, workforce, community benefits, and seismic compliance.
Erika leverages more than two decades of legal, regulatory, and legislative experience, and offers a practical and insightful approach to helping employers, regulators and government leaders understand the impact workplace polices and mandates have on employers and employees alike.
Prior to joining CHA, Erika served as Associated Executive Director and General Counsel at the California Lawyers Association. Erika also previously served as the General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Legal Affairs at the California Chamber of Commerce. With a focus on employment law compliance, Erika oversaw CalChamber’s Labor Law Helpline and assisted countless members with their labor and employment law questions. She also played an integral role in the launch and success of CalChamber’s “The Workplace” podcast.
Erika also previously served the Shaw Law Group, where she provided advice and counsel, conducted workplace investigations and developed and facilitated compliance training.
Erika is a sought-after speaker. She has produced and conducted numerous seminars and webinars on topics including leaves of absence, wage and hour compliance, and harassment, discrimination and retaliation prevention. She is known for her relentless energy and ability to transform legal concepts into simple stories and realistic scenarios.
Erika attended Stanford Graduate School of Business, Finance and Accounting for the Non-Financial Executive Program, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, and holds a B.A. from University of California, Santa Barbara.
Jeanine Debacker, Esq.
Employment Lawyer, Trainer and Workplace Investigator, McPharlin, Sprinkles & Thomas, LLP
Jeanine counsels employers in all aspects of employment law on a day to day basis and works with clients regarding leaves of absence, compensation, separations, and performance matters. Jeanine conducts workplace investigations and provide engaging, interactive trainings regarding sexual harassment prevention, leaves of absence management, and employee relations and crafts and reviews handbooks and policies and other communications. Jeanine vigorously defends employers in discrimination, harassment and retaliation lawsuits based on race, gender, disability and other protected classes and helps employers resolve wage and hour problems such as unpaid overtime and breaks. Jeanine practices ERISA / employee benefits law, helping plans with IRS and DOL audits and applying for voluntary correction programs.
Joshua M. Henderson
Principal, Jackson Lewis
Joshua M. Henderson is a principal in the San Francisco, California, office of Jackson Lewis, where he represents employers in a variety of industries in a broad range of labor and employment litigation and counseling. He is the leader of the firm’s Workplace Safety and Health practice group.
Josh has a national OSHA practice, providing training and strategic advice on compliance with workplace safety and health regulations under federal law and state plans. He also defends employers in OSHA litigation in California and across the United States. He is recognized as a thought leader in the area of workplace safety and health.
In addition to his OSHA work, Josh has represented management in traditional labor matters for over 25 years. His practice includes NLRB litigation; collective bargaining; due diligence in connection with corporate mergers and acquisitions; contract interpretation and discharge arbitrations; strikes and secondary boycotts; union campaigns and elections; and related litigation.
Josh’s practice encompasses other types of litigation as well, including wage and hour class, collective, and PAGA actions, and defense of whistleblowing, discrimination, and sexual harassment claims. He also is a trusted advisor for technology and other companies navigating California’s complex employment regulatory space.
Josh previously served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Saundra Brown Armstrong of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and has performed as a trained professional opera singer.
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