Hot Topics in Employment Law for Financial Services Companies

In this panel conversation, John Fullerton, Lauri Rasnick, and Marc Mandelman, members of Epstein Becker & Green’s financial industry service team, identify and discuss some of the hot topics in employment law for employers in the financial services industry. Topics include employee classification and misclassification, new overtime regulations, criminal and credit background checks, and whistleblower compliance and retaliation litigation issues, with a particular emphasis on the unique challenges these legal issues pose in the financial sector.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand how the employee/independent contractor issue affects financial services firms
2. Recognize the impact new Department of Labor regulations will have on eligibility for overtime compensation
3. Identify the financial services exceptions to criminal and credit background check laws and when they apply
4. Explore the latest whistleblower issues relevant to the financial sector