Multi-State and Multi-National Employers Overlooked Employment Laws: Varying state laws on cannabis, worker’s compensation laws, state OSHA plans, minimum wage laws, and misclassifying workers as independent contractors

Adele Abrams | Law Office of Adele L. Abrams PC

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Adele is an attorney, safety professional and trainer who is president of the Law Office of Adele L. Abrams P.C. in Beltsville, MD, Charleston, WV, and Denver, CO, a multi-attorney firm focusing on safety, health and employment law nationwide. Adele is an ASP and certified mine safety professional, and she also provides consultation, safety audits and training services to MSHA and OSHA regulated companies.

Adele is a regular columnist for numerous magazines on legal, employment, mine and occupational safety/health issues, and is co-author of several books related to mining, construction, employment law, and occupational safety and health.

She is a member of the Maryland, DC and Pennsylvania Bars, the U.S. District Courts of Maryland, DC and Tennessee, the U.S. Court of Appeals, DC, 3rd and 4th Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court. She is a graduate of the George Washington University’s National Law Center and earned her B.S. in Journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Her professional memberships include the American Society of Safety Professionals, National Safety Council, the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association, Associated Builders and Contractors, the Industrial Minerals Association-North America, and the American Bar Association. In 2017, she received the NSC’s Distinguished Service to Safety Award. She is a multiple recipient of the ASSP’s Safety Professional of the Year Award. She was named an Avetta Fellow in 2022.

I. Varying state laws on worker protections for medical cannabis patients | 10:00am – 10:20am

II. Crazy quilt of worker’s compensation laws and interface with personal injury/tort litigation | 10:20am – 10:40am

III. State OSHA plans that differ significantly from Federal OSHA requirements | 10:40am –11:00am

Break | 11:00am – 11:10am

IV. Minimum wage laws at the state and municipal level that conflict with federal FLSA | 11:10am – 11:40am

V. Misclassifying workers as independent contractors | 11:40am -12:10pm