When the Government Comes Knocking: Audit and Employment Law Updates

April 4, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

ALCA
5425 East Bell Rd. Suite 105
Scottsdale, AZ 85254
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Registration Cost
Members: $0.00
Non-Members: $0.00

Event Details

Friday, April 4 at 1-3pm
Arizona Landscape Contractors' Association
5425 E Bell Rd, Ste 105, Scottsdale, AZ 85254

A new Administration is bringing a number of changes that impact employers. Changes are expected with the DOL, OSHA, NLRB, and EEOC. Employers may be more challenged than ever to keep current on the status of legal and regulatory requirements. Join Employment and OSHA, Construction, and Litigation Attorney Julie Pace as she shares the latest employment law updates and compliance strategies and tools for companies to utilize to help ensure you are prepared to address government investigations. With more than 30 years of experience as an attorney, Julie Pace has handled a wide variety of government audits and can share real life stories and cases. Attendees will come away with the tools and insights to manage risks and build and strengthen employment compliance strategies.

Learning Objectives

- The many changes to expect under a second Trump Administration

- How to conduct your own internal I-9 and E-Verify Audit, including the most common mistakes made on the I-9 form and how to correct them, and considerations relating to President Trump’s new Executive Orders regarding immigration;

- Best practices in hiring, counseling, disciplining and terminating employees.

- Preventing and responding to EEOC discrimination or harassment charges

- Complying with the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

- Conducting your own internal wage and hour audit and the biggest issues that DOL is auditing, including:

· minimum wage, overtime, piece rate pay, and time cards

· travel time

· off-the-clock work

· classifying workers as employees versus independent contractors

· classifying employees as exempt or non-exempt from overtime

- Update on national employment law and OSHA developments in laws, regulations and standards.

- NLRB Updates.

Julie Pace’s practice handles employment law, handbooks, drug and alcohol policies, I-9 and E-Verify compliance, OSHA, independent contractor and alleged misclassification issues with DES and other government agencies, and defends claims of sexual harassment, employment discrimination, retaliation, whistleblower, and wrongful discharge, and against charges by the EEOC or ACRD. She handles matters involving OSHA, ICE, OFCCP, DOL, NLRB, ADA, FMLA, ERISA, PPA, CARES Act, SIGPR Audits, COVID-19, ACA, Davis-Bacon, wage and hour laws, FAR, SCA, and government contracts. She regularly provides training to companies and assists with investigations. Julie can be reached at 602.851.8799 (office) or 602.397.9871 (mobile) or jpace@psgmlaw.com Smiling businesswoman, blonde hair, pearl necklace.