Program Details

• Location & Session Dates

  2025 Session Dates: January 6, 13, 27, February 3, 10, 17

  Session Time: 6:00-8:00 pm Pacific

• Course Format

  All sessions will be held live online via Zoom.

• Course Sessions

  Session 1:  Overview 

  • Who is an employee?  
  • Alternative classifications of labor relationships (e.g., independent contractors; interns; volunteers; etc.)
  • Which laws apply to whom (a survey of Federal and state law and administrative regulations governing labor relationships) 

  Session 2:  Recruiting, Hiring, and Onboarding ( … and Arbitration)

  • What documents and trainings are required by law? What additional documents and trainings are recommended by practitioners? 
  • Should an organization have mandatory arbitration agreements?
  • Reviewing one of the most impactful decisions, re: arbitration: Armendariz v. Foundation Health Psychcare Services, Inc. and its progeny

  Session 3:  Social Safety Nets: Purposes and Eligibility 

  • Understanding the distinction between social safety nets as wage replacement and leaves of absence as permitted time off from work
  • Employer coverage, employee eligibility, duration, and reasons for leave:
    • State Disability Insurance
    • Paid Family Leave
    • Unemployment Insurance
    • Workers’ Compensation

  Session 4:  Medical Leaves of Absence

  • Understanding the interplay with social safety net wage-replacement programs
  • Employer coverage, employee eligibility, duration, and reasons for leave:
    • Family Medical Leave Act
    • California Family Rights Act
    • Pregnancy Disability Leave
  • Disciplining or terminating employees on leave

  Session 5:  Paid Sick Leave, Vacation, PTO, and Miscellaneous Time Off

  • Employer coverage, employee eligibility, duration, and reasons for leave
  • Payment, recordkeeping, and reinstatement protections
  • Required and optional leaves and legal implications
  • Disciplining or terminating employees on leave

  Session 6: Discipline, Termination, and Plant Closings

  • At-will employment versus contractual employment: written, oral, implied-in-fact
  • Avoiding wrongful termination lawsuits
  • Federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act
  • State (“Baby-”) WARN acts
  • Putting it all together
     
• Course Instructor

  

  Andrew J. Hoag, J.D., M.P.A.
  Lecturer in Law
  Partner at Fisher & Phillips, LLP

  Andrew Hoag is a partner at Fisher & Phillips, LLP, one of the largest U.S. law firms representing management in labor-and-employment law.  He represents local and national employers on a wide spectrum of labor-and-employment matters. His practice includes advice and counsel, advanced transactional work, and litigation. His advice and counsel includes day-to-day compliance advice and prophylactic trainings for managers and supervisors, human resource professionals, and corporate counsel. His litigation includes defense of discrimination and harassment claims and class-action and Private Attorneys General Act wage-and-hour matters. Read his full bio here.

• Certificates and MCLE

  Certificate of Completion

  Participants who complete all required course elements will receive a certificate of completion from UCLA Law Executive Education.

  MCLE

  UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider. This session has requested MCLE credit for 12 hours and is currently pending approval.

• Tuition & Discounts

  General Tuition: $995

  Government or Non-Profit Employee: $895* (save 10%)

  UCLA Law Alumni and Previous Paid Executive Education Participant: $895* (save 10%)

  Partner Organization Members: $895* (save 10%)

  Non-Lawyers: $895* (save 10%)

  ^{*For all discount rates, please email execed@law.ucla.edu for the relevant instructions to access your tuition category.}