In these difficult economic times, employers must decide whether to hire new workers, reduce hours and/or wages of current employees, or to change job locations for existing workers.

This program will examine the employers' obligations when changing the terms of employment or terminating workers including severance, benefits, transportation, and reporting requirements to the government. An employee's immigration status may affect the scope of an employer's possible actions and the repercussions of any change.

Through the use of hypotheticals, our expert panel will provide concrete advice in real-world situations to employment lawyers, corporate counsel and other lawyers who advise employers.

Special attention will be paid to preventing discrimination during recruitment, during the I-9 process, during the E-Verify process and as a result of receiving a Social Security no-match letter.