 | The Year Ahead 2024: ConstructionJackson Lewis Construction Industry co-leaders Dion Kohler and Sean Paisan discuss the key labor law and occupational safety and health-related issues affecting the construction industry in 2024. Topics include the significant NLRB decision regarding the election process of union organizing, protected concerted activity, and ramped-up OSHA construction-based enforcement efforts that coincide with the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. |
 | The Year Ahead 2024: HealthcareJackson Lewis Healthcare Industry co-chairs Sarah Skubas and Mike Bertoncini discuss the five developments most likely to continue impacting the healthcare industry in 2024: strike activity; staffing shortages; union organizing; compliance and legal challenges around vaccination requirements and accommodations; and the NLRB’s recent joint-employer rule making it easier to find that employers and their staffing agencies are joint employers. |
 | The Year Ahead 2024: Higher EducationJackson Lewis Higher Education group co-chairs Monica Khetarpal and Susan Friedfel share how you can be prepared for changes around fair student admissions and how to apply those lessons to employees and board members. Other key considerations for 2024 are free speech vs. academic freedom issues and the expected March 2024 release of Title IX regulations relating to sexual misconduct. |
 | The Year Ahead 2024: HospitalityMelanie Paul, co-leader of Jackson Lewis’ Workplace Safety and Health Practice Group, talks with her colleagues, principals Joanne Lambert and Stephanie Cerasano, about intriguing issues for the hospitality industry to look toward in 2024, including service animals, babies, and robotic arms. |
 | The Year Ahead 2024: ManufacturingJackson Lewis Manufacturing Industry group co-chairs Jim Stone and Maurice Jenkins bring their combined 55 years of experience to discuss the sobering and structural challenges 2024 has in store in terms of recruitment and retention. Skill gaps and mismatches, change management, new compensation strategies, internal talent marketplaces, employee referral programs, false barriers to entry, DEI, and more are all on the horizon. |
 | The Year Ahead 2024: RetailLaura Pierson-Scheinberg, head of Jackson Lewis’ Retail Industry group; Melanie Paul, co-leader of the firm’s Workplace Safety and Health practice; and principal Shannon Nakabayashi, a wage and hour practitioner, discuss the continuing labor renaissance and the need to focus on employee happiness and organizational wellness. Other topics include OSHA’s national emphasis program targeting retailers with warehouses and distribution centers, and the immediate impact and risks involved with how retailers absorb increased labor costs due to minimum wage increases. |