This Committee includes over 100 corporate representatives, arbitrators, management lawyers, employee representatives, former judges, human resources professionals, mediators, and professors.  In 2009-10, the committee discussed developments in the field, including discussions of CPR’s policy to resume administering employment arbitrations, and hosted special presentations by Kenneth Feinberg, the Administration’s “Compensation Czar”.  In 2010 the Committee will consider new initiatives, such as updating publications, and investigating how CPR’s resources can assist corporate clients and their employees in this difficult economy.

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The Chair of this Committee is Jay Waks of Kaye Scholer LLP.

The next meeting of this committee is:  TBD.
To attend contact Hilary Kromnick at hkromnick@cpradr.org

CPR regularly convenes this committee of in-house counsel, attorneys, and leading ADR practitioners to analyze, establish benchmarks and publish material on issues that are critically important to business practices.  Meeting minutes, agendas, materials, and works in progress for this committee are available to CPR Members only. >> Access Materials

If you would like to join this committee, Contact Hilary Kromnick at hkromnick@cpradr.org. Committee participation is open to CPR Members only.

Employment Committee Members

CPR's commitment to encouraging the use of ADR in resolving employment disputes is deep-seeded and persistent. In addition to publishing a major work in the area which is intended to assist employers of all sizes in installing and implementing ADR employment programs, CPR maintains a group of regional Employment Panels of Neutrals. It also maintains a standing Employment Advisory Committee, which meets at least once a year to discuss current events in employment ADR and share insights and techniques.

At its twice-yearly meetings, the CPR Employment Committee invites prominent guest speakers to hear about current developments in such areas as mediation of ADA claims, waiver of statutory claims, use of ADR by state and federal enforcement agencies, and the enforceability of mandatory and binding arbitration policies.

In 1998, the CPR Employment Committee published the CPR Program to Resolve Employment Disputes, which provided employers with the substative background, structural issues, choices, communications models, and implementation checklists needed to plan, implement and administer an employment ADR system.

In 2002, the Committee released "How Companies Manage Employment Disputes."  This 400-page volume is a compendium and analysis of 22 companies' employment dispute systems, and also includes in-depth interviews with some of the top legal minds in the country.  In 2004 the CPR Program to Resolve Employment Disputes was revised under the title "Resource Book for Managing Employment Disputes".  The Resource Book features in-depth discussions of management techniques in building employment dispute systems, as well as model agreements to mediate or arbitrate. "How Companies Manage Employment Disputes" is available for purchase.