Archive for February, 2010

Hotel Lawyer Stephen Barth: Eighth Annual Hospitality Law Conference Major Success

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

HospitalityLawyer.com, the industry’s web-based resource for legal, safety, and security solutions, today announced that the 2010 Hospitality Law Conference was an incredible success, receiving excellent reviews from attendees.

Three hundred attendees from across the country and around the world attended this one-of-a-kind conference in Houston, Texas. The two-and-a-half-day conference focused on the following core topics:

  • Current Real Estate Issues in the Industry
  • Information Privacy & Protection, including PCI-DSS
  • Lodging & Fundamentals of Hospitality Law
  • Food & Beverage
  • Labor & Employment; and
  • Loss Prevention & Risk Management. 

“The conference gives attendees the information and resources they need to stay ahead of the fast-changing laws pertinent to our industry,” said Stephen Barth, founder of HospitalityLawyer.com, noting conference attendees include hotel and restaurant in-house counsel, hotel and restaurant lawyers, loss-prevention personnel, risk managers, and hospitality owners and operators.

For the complete release on the conference, please click here.

Couldn’t make it to the 2010 Hospitality Law Conference? To purchase conference materials (Conference Summary Notebook and USB Drive with papers and PowerPoints) for $199.00, please contact Claudia Aslin.

Hotel Labor & Employment Law: Don’t Let Employees Get Hurt As You Dig Out

Monday, February 15th, 2010

National labor and employment law firm Fisher & Phillips offers the following tips for businesses, as they begin to deal with the aftermath of the winter storms:

In the midst of finding childcare for children unexpectedly home from school, coping with business disruption, power outages, and dangerous streets, we often forget that winter storms, like hurricanes, pose special workplace hazards especially when employers begin to clean up and restore business. Many fatalities, injuries, and OSHA citations occur as employees perform non-routine tasks after the storm eases.

For the complete article, including OSHA-related information on falls, electrocutions, personal protection equipment (PPE), hazard communication, equipment operation, and more, please click here.

For more information on Fisher & Phillips, including labor & employment resources, please click here.