Get a sneak peek at some of the session topics you'll find at LRI!

Subject to change—please check back often for updates.

• 2024 PERC update
  The fastest 90 minutes at LRI—buckle up!
• Accommodation potpourri
  What to do if you know or believe that an employee cannot perform the essential functions of their job permanently or indefinitely.
• Artificial Intelligence and data privacy
  Learn how recent events may affect the future of HR policies and practice.
• Basics of bargaining in the public sector (optional early start session)
  A condensed overview of public sector collective bargaining in Washington, from the arrival of labor unions, to the bargaining process, to the administration of the collective bargaining agreement.
• Beyond the job boards
  Develop a strategy for improving recruitment for difficult vacancies
• (Collective bargaining) Survivor: Real-life bargaining scenarios and analysis
  Learn how to effectively implement bargaining strategies and be prepared to respond to common Union tactics.
• Creatures of contract: Best practices for managing grievances and arbitrations
  What can be grieved? What management decisions that are likely to be grieved, so that defenses to those grievances can be created before the grievance is submitted.
• Disrupting the status quo: Unraveling the impact of public sector strikes
  Understand the complexities of strikes in the public sector, including their causes, effects, and potential solutions..
• Employment law update for 2024
  A review of lessons from recent court cases and statutes applicable to Washington employers.
• Don’t “leave” LRI without it: Untangling the complicated leave laws
  A refresher on key employer obligations under the FMLA, ADA/WLAD, and Washington’s paid sick leave law, paid family/medical leave law, pregnancy/childbirth disability leave law, and Family Care Act, including how these laws may intersect.
• Making sense of compensation analysis: The who, what, when, where, and how
  Prepare compensation analysis for both interest arbitration and non-interest arbitration bargaining units.