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WNY - Hot Employment Law Issues for 2025 – 2026

  • 30 Oct 2025
  • 7:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  • The Barrel Factory, 65 Vandalia St, Buffalo, NY 14204

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Join us for our Fall Legal Update presented by the WNY National Human Resource Association in collaboration with Daniel P. Forsyth, labor and employment lawyer with Bond, Schoeneck & King. 

This is Daniel’s 9th legal update for the WNY – National Human Resources Association. He has been the exclusive speaker for legal issues since 2015.  We are delighted to have him return to share updates regarding:

 Hot Employment Law Issues for 2025-2026

  • Service Animals at Work - legal considerations for bringing in Fido
  • The U.S. Supreme Court clarifies reverse discrimination: the Ames Case
  • Legal issues raised by remote work requests 
  • Responding to workplace polarizing/political expression 
  • Love-on-the-clock
       -Fraternization Policies
       -Sex harassment risks
       -Formal "love contracts"
  • New N.Y.S. Laws
       -Penalties for failing to pay manual labor weekly
       -Unemployment benefits skyrocket
       -Jury duty pay 
       -Retail Worker Safety Act: the new FAQs, model policy and training.
  • Significant 2025 court cases under the ADA:
       -M
    andatory medical exams
       -The burden of reasonable accommodation

    About our Speaker
    • Daniel P. Forsyth, labor and employment lawyer with Bond, Schoeneck & King

      Daniel has worked in employment law for over 35 years. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2001-2025, Employment Law - Management; Labor Law - Management; Litigation - Labor and Employment (listed for more than 20 years). Most recently he was awarded Best Lawyers' 2025 Buffalo Labor Law - Management Lawyer of the Year.

      He represents employers in National Labor Relations Board proceedings including unfair labor practice charges and over 30 union organizing campaigns. Daniel has extensive union experience in: labor arbitration, collective bargaining, jurisdictional disputes, strike preparation, strikes, slowdowns, reaching impasse, reserved gates, salting, decision & effects bargaining, decertification, deauthorization, lockouts, picketing, double-breasting, responding to union information demands, successorship, accretion, card signing and NLRB injunctions.

      Daniel regularly appears before various federal and New York state agencies, including the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division, OSHA, New York State Division of Human Rights, New York State Department of Labor and New York State Workers' Compensation Board. 

      He practices at all levels of state and federal courts in litigation involving: employment discrimination, wrongful discharge, restrictive covenants, motions to stay/compel arbitration, motions to vacate/confirm arbitration awards, duty of fair representation and injunctions.

      For more information on Daniel and his impressive background –CLICK HERE

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