73rd Annual NYU Conference on Labor - ADDRESSING PAY EQUITY & ISSUES OF INEQUALITY AT WORK

This Thursday and Friday at NYU a terrific program  (alas I am zooming in rather than having the pleasure to visit one of my favorite cities and be wined and dined...) -- speakers include Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia, NLRB Chairman John Ring, EEOC Commissioner Charlotte Burrows,  and scholars from a variety of fields including Matt Bodie, Kate Andrias, economist Richard Freeman (who I had the pleasure to work with during my doctoral studies), Catherine Fisk, Sam Estreicher, and myself. Read the entire agenda after the page break. 

CONFERENCE AGENDA

Day 1 – Thursday, October 1 MORNING SESSION:
8:45 a.m.		WELCOME Prof. Samuel Estreicher (NYU Law) Michael Gray, Esq. (Jones Day)
8:45-9:25		KEYNOTE ADDRESS: HON. EUGENE SCALIA (U.S. SECRETARY OF LABOR) Introduction by Mark E. Brossman (Schulte Roth)
Morning Session Moderator: Zoe Salzman (Emery, Celli, Brinckerhoff & Abady)
9:30-10:30		WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT WORKPLACE INEQUALITY? Is Income Inequality Getting Worse and If So, Why? Prof. Richard B. Freeman (Harvard) Causes of Inequality in the Workplace Prof. Matthew Bodie (St. Louis Univ. School of Law) Comments:  Prof. John Addison (Univ. of S. Carolina)
10:45-12:00		ADDRESSING GENDER PAY EQUITY Corporate Reporting Requirements, Shareholder Activism & State Law Approaches Michael Delikat, Esq. (Orrick) EEOC Pay Disclosure Initiatives, Past And Future David Lopez (Rutgers Law School; former GC, EEOC) Role of Internal Audits: Pay Equity Claims Joseph O’Keefe (Proskauer) Comments:  Johnna Torsone (Pitney Bowes)
12:00-1:00		LUNCH BREAK
AFTERNOON SESSION:
1:00-1:45		HON. CHARLOTTE BURROWS (COMMISSIONER, EEOC) Introduction by Virginia Hardwick, (Hardwick Benfer)
Afternoon Session Moderator: Gerald Hathaway (Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath)
1:50-3:45		ADDRESSING WORKPLACE INEQUALITY ‘Joint Employer’ Issues Prof. Michael C. Harper (Boston Univ.) Comments: Jeffrey Rosin (O’Hagan Meyer) Bolstering Union Power Prof. Catherine Fisk (Berkeley Law School) Comments: Frederick Braid (Holland & Knight) Role of Antidiscrimination & Equal Pay Litigation Joseph Sellers (Cohen Milstein) Comments: Amy Traub (Baker Hostetler) No-Compete Clauses as a Brake on Employee Wage Gains Prof. Orly Lobel (Univ. of San Diego Law School) Comments: Ann-Elizabeth Ostrager (Sullivan & Cromwell)
	Day 2 – Friday, October 2 MORNING SESSION:
	8:30-9:20	KEYNOTE ADDRESS:  HON. JOHN F. RING (CHAIRMAN, NLRB) Introduction by Marshall Babson (Seyfarth Shaw)
	Morning Session Moderator: Davida Perry (Schwartz, Perry & Heller)
	9:25-10:15	RE-VISITING CORPORATE PURPOSE Prof. Edward Rock (NYU School of Law) Comments: Pearl Zuchlewski (Kraus & Zuchlewski)
	10:15-10:45	REDUCING INCOME INEQUALITY THROUGH PROFIT SHARING Prof. Joseph Blasi (Rutgers School of Management)
	10:55-11:25	PAY EQUITY ISSUES IN SPORTS Jeffrey Kessler (Winston Strawn)
	11:30-12:15	EQUALITY INITIATIVES IN THE OFCCP Craig Leen, Director (USDOL, OFCCP) Comments: Karen Gillen (O’Melveny)
	12:15-1:15	LUNCH BREAK
	AFTERNOON SESSION:
	1:15-2:30	COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES Wendi Lazar (Outten & Golden) Littler Mendelson International Offices:     Hannah Mahon, London     Sari Springer, Toronto     Juan Carlos Varela, Caracas Hironobu Tsukamoto (Nagashima Ohno) Comments: Phil Berkowitz (Littler Mendelson)
	2:35-3:50	PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY/DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, ELIMINATION OF BIAS IN THE PRACTICE OF LAW Krissy A. Katzenstein (Morgan Lewis) Other Speakers TBA
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