Empowering Workers' Rights Attorneys
NELA is excited to move into our second year of hosting in-person programs since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are proud of the collegiality and compassion with which our community has upheld practical measures to keep each other safe. We will continually monitor public health information and may amend our protocols consistent with changes to public health guidance. Notification will be sent if there is a change in our policy.
To allow for participation by the greatest number of members in our community, up-to-date vaccination as defined by the CDC will be required. Attendees and guests at the 2023 Wage & Hour Seminar will be required to provide proof of up-to-date vaccination on site. Photos of vaccination cards with the vaccinated individual’s name clearly visible are accepted. If you or a guest are unable to be vaccinated due to age, medical, or religious reasons, please contact Jeffrey Mittman to discuss an accommodation. Accommodations for unvaccinated individuals may include:
Regardless of vaccination status, masks must be worn at the seminar registration desk and all staffed NELA or Institute tables. Attendees are strongly encouraged to wear masks in all plenary and concurrent sessions and in common spaces when not presenting or actively eating or drinking. Participants will be denied entry or asked to leave if experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. NELA will have masks, hand sanitizer, and a limited supply of COVID-19 rapid tests available at the registration desk. Should public health guidance change or the spread of COVID-19 becomes a concern at the event, NELA may require masking at all seminar sessions and events.
For questions at any time, please contact Jeffrey Mittman, NELA Executive Director, at (415) 625-5401 or jmittman@nelahq.org.
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Bernard Alexander, III prosecutes demanding private and public sector employment cases. He has tried over sixty cases to verdict with seven- and eight-figure judgments for claims of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation based on gender, race, age, sex, sexual orientation, and disability, among other things. Over the last 9 months his verdicts include: (1) $3 million for a security guard terminated for “job abandonment” after he took emergency leave from work to care for his school age daughter (February 2018); (2) $5.3 million for a 25-year FedEx employee fired after not having his disability accommodated (March 2019); (3) $1.3 million for CFRA retaliation, for a 29-year employee terminated before his return from leave (April 2019); and $100,000 in a Title IX retaliation case where a Girls’ Soccer Coach complained of unequal treatment compared to boys sports (Sept 2019). Board Member of the National Employment Lawyers Association; Past Chair of the California Employment Law Association; 2016 CELA Joe Posner Award Recipient; 2019 Top 100 Attorneys in California; Top 75 California Labor and Employment Lawyer (2012 to present); Top 100 Southern California Super Lawyers (2015 to present); American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA): Associate 2013.