23rd Annual Labor Arbitration Conference

25 America's Cup Avenue,Newport RI 02840

07 November, 2022

Description

This year the URI Schmidt Labor Research Center's 23rd Annual Labor Arbitration Conference returns in-person to the Newport Marriott! The conference features labor and employment lawyers, academics, and arbitrators. This year’s Labor Arbitration Conference will focus on diversity issues, explicit and implicit. The workplace has been transformed by the Covid-19 pandemic, in both operations and practices. The workforce is becoming more diverse, and generational differences are becoming more apparent as 5 generations converge within today's teams. Change often leads to conflict, but also provides expansive opportunities for innovative collaboration and reaching creative agreements. Topics this year include: Harnessing the Power of Behavioral and Organizational Science to Drive Collaboration and Agreement; Transforming Difference into Advantage: A Practical, Solutions-Oriented Discussion; Effectively Questioning Witnesses (Direct and Cross); Impacts of Covid Changes on the Workplace; Video Hearings: Forever or Nevermore?; Due Process Violations; and Ethical tests we face as advocates and arbitrators: What would you do in these hypothetical cases? The full agenda may be viewed here: 23rd Annual Labor Arbitration Conference Agenda and is included below. Additional Event & Hotel Information:Start Date: Sunday, November 6, 2022 , 5 pm - 7:30 pm End Date: Monday, November 7, 2022 , 8:30 am - 4 pm The conference will be held at the Newport Marriott, at 25 America's Cup Ave, Newport, RI 02840. Free parking is available at The Gateway Visitors Center, located at 23 America's Cup Avenue (next to the hotel). A discounted room rate of $184 per night has been secured at the Newport Marriott for guests of the 23rd Annual Labor Arbitration Conference. The last day to book your room at this discounted rate will be Monday, October 10, 2022. Please book your stay by clicking here. A social hour will be held in the Marriott Skiff Bar at 5 pm Sunday evening, followed by a 6 pm screening of the film “The 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike: Its Place in Labor Law.” The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, generously financed by the National Academy of Arbitrators’ Research and Educational Foundation, made this film of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike to show the impact of the absence of a state agency to resolve recognitional disputes in the public sector. Please see the RSVP details to follow in the Registration Information section below. A continental breakfast buffet and gourmet lunch buffet - which will include a soup of the day, multiple salad offerings, and custom sandwich options - will be served on Monday, the 7th, and the day will close with a cookie, coffee, and tea social hour. Registration Information:Early Bird Rate: $250 - Available for attendees who register by October 10th! General Admission Rate: $350 Purchase of an Early Bird or General Admission ticket grants you access to Day 2 of the conference (Monday's programming). If you plan to attend both days of the conference, please RSVP to the Sunday Evening Film Screening via the order form at "Checkout" when you purchase your ticket here. This Day 1 film screening can be added at no additional cost with your RSVP once you have purchased your ticket. Tickets will be available until Monday, October 31st. Please note: registrations may not be cancelled, but are transferrable with approval from the organizer. Please email [email protected] with any questions. Questions: Please call 401-874-2239 or email [email protected] Sponsored by:URI CHARLES T. SCHMIDT, JR. LABOR RESEARCH CENTER & The National Academy of Arbitrators, New England Region This conference may be recorded and photographed. If you prefer your image not be captured, please notify us via email or at the registration booth upon arrival.