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Essential Employment Law for Managers (Career Event #24)
This workshop will consider employment from the manager's perspective. For example: Balancing a company's right to confidential information with an employee's right to change jobs; non-competition agreements; and common legal pitfalls for managers .
Description: This workshop will look at employment law from the perspective of key concerns of managers, including: How does the law balance the right of a company to protect its confidential information against the right of a manager to change jobs? How do non-competition agreements work? What are common legal pitfalls for managers exercising their supervisory responsibilities? What limits does the law place on the right of an employer to fire?
Speaker: John Akula teaches at MIT Sloan, where he has primary responsibility for the law curriculum. John graduated from Harvard Law School, clerked for a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and practiced law for 15 years. He was a partner at a leading national law firm before returning to the academic world, where he then taught at Harvard and MIT. He is heavily involved in MIT Sloan’s international and executive education programs.
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Date: Tuesday, November 8
Time: 6:30 - 7:00 PM networking & heavy hors d'oeuvres, 7 - 8:30 PM program
Place: MIT Sloan School, E62-250
Price: Free for SACB Alumni Members
$20 for Alumni Non-Members
$40 General Registration
$10 Students/Sloan Fellows
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