Virginia Is for Workers: Virginia’s New Wage and Hour Laws (On Demand Seminar)

MCLE Credits: 1.0
Ethics Credits Included: 0.0

MCLE Credit:	1.0 (Ethics: 0.0)
Live-Interactive Credit:	0.0
Price:	$79 (Includes a downloadable audio version.)
Viewable Through:	11/30/2024

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A pre-recorded streaming video replay of the September 2021 webcast, Virginia Is for Workers: Virginia’s New Wage and Hour Laws.

Course Outline

Examine groundbreaking new tools that Virginia workers who allege wage theft have to vindicate their rights, as a result of a raft of new laws passed in the last two sessions of the General Assembly
Hear a summary of the new wage payment, overtime, paycheck transparency, and misclassification laws, including damages, statute of limitations, administrative exhaustion and collective action provisions

COURSE PURPOSE

This panel educates Virginia practitioners about the groundbreaking new wage and hour laws recently signed into law. Prior to the enactment of these laws, Virginia workers who alleged they were paid incorrectly had few rights in state law. The panelists examine the new statutes and provide practice pointers for practitioners.

Topics to be covered include:

Virginia’s Wage Payment Statute, Va. Code § 40.1-29
The Virginia Overtime Wage Act, Va. Code § 40.1-29.2
Virginia’s new worker misclassification laws, Va. Code § 40.1-28.7:7; Va. Code §§ 58.1-1900-05; and Va. Code § 40.1-33.1
Virginia’s new pay transparency law, Va. Code § 40.1-28.7:9
Wage-and-hour practice pointers, including collective action motions

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Craig J. Curwood, Butler Curwood, PLC / Richmond

Craig J. Curwood has been a plaintiffs’ employment lawyer in Richmond since 1999. In 2021 he formed Butler Curwood, PLC with partners Harris Butler, Zev Antell, and Paul Falabella. He represents plaintiffs in all types of employment litigation, including discrimination, sexual harassment, FMLA, FLSA, USERRA, workplace violence, defamation, class action, and multi-plaintiff discrimination and wage/hour claims. Mr. Curwood is a graduate of James Madison University (1995) and University of Richmond School of Law (1999). He is currently the Vice Chair of the Virginia Bar Association’s Section on Labor & Employee Relations.

Mark Hanna, Murphy Anderson PLLC / Washington, DC

Mark Hanna is a founding partner of Murphy Anderson PLLC, based in Washington, DC. He has a diverse labor and employment law practice representing workers in class and collective actions, whistleblowers alleging fraud, and labor unions. He litigates collective and class actions alleging wage-and-hour violations, including overtime, misclassification, unpaid meal breaks, and donning-and-doffing violations. Most of his clients are low-wage workers, many of them immigrants. Mr. Hanna is a graduate of Michigan State University’s James Madison College and the University of Michigan Law School.