LRIS Seminars for Public Safety Professionals and Labor Attorneys

LRIS offers a wide range of seminars designed for any individual involved in public safety labor relations. Each year, more than 1,000 people attend our seminars, including chiefs, representatives of labor organizations, personnel and labor relations specialists, attorneys, and rank-and-file law enforcement officers and firefighters.

At LRIS, we make the following commitments about our seminars:

• You will always receive the latest, most up-to-date information.
• Our speakers, who we recruit on a nationwide basis, will be professionals with years of experience in personnel and labor issues.
• Our program will always have a balance of management and labor speakers, all of whom will have prepared extensive written materials.
• Our seminars will be held in comfortable, reasonably priced hotels located in cities which are enjoyable to visit.

Our upcoming seminars:
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Collective Bargaining For Public Safety Employees
June 18 to June 20, 2008
The Flamingo Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada

This seminar presents experienced negotiators from both management and labor sides of the table. It covers the scope of bargaining from what topics are hot for bargaining, model contract language, the nuts and bolts of the bargaining process, and unfair labor practices.

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The ABCs Of Federal Employment Laws You Need To Know
July 30 to August 01, 2008
The Flamingo Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada

NEW!! Our first training offered to all public employees, this seminar will examine the alphabet soup of federal laws and how they relate to public employees - the ADA, the ADEA, the FMLA, the FLSA, PDA, Title VII, USERRA, HIPAA, OSHA, COBRA.

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Grievances, Arbitration And Past Practices
October 08 to October 10, 2008
The Flamingo Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada

Learn the basic principles of grievances and arbitration, receive examples of overtime clauses in collective bargaining agreements, the elements of just cause and disciplinary grievances, the impact of past practice on collective bargaining, and get an arbitrator’s perspective of the arbitration process.

“Each time I attend I learn something that affects or has affected our agency. The information provided is a must have for both labor and management.” Clay Chandler, Clay County, Florida Sheriff’s Department.

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Internal Affairs & The Use Of Force
November 12 to November 14, 2008
The Flamingo Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada

A three-day seminar for all law enforcement agencies and labor organizations, Personnel Directors, and Attorneys involved in public sector labor relations.

“Extremely informative. Very good resource materials. My confidence level has been boosted in this subject matter. I am much better prepared to tackle use of force issues from both a labor and management perspective in my agency.” Capt. Tim Topulos, Meriden, CT Police Department

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