AIA|LA COVID-19 VIRTUAL FORUM #4

AIA|LA COVID-19 VIRTUAL FORUM #4 – Legal Issues, Human Resources,and Stimulus Relief Measures

moderated by Greg Verabian, AIA – President, AIA Los Angeles & Design Director, Principal, HKS

featuring Ryan J. Kohler – Attorney at Law, Collins Collins Muir + Stewart LLP

This is a virtual event. Meeting information will be emailed to registrants.

Learning Units: 1 LU  

As our 4th in our series of AIA|LA virtual town hall forums, AIA|LA’s President, Greg Verabian, AIA will moderate a discussion with Ryan J. Kohler, Attorney at Law at Collins Collins Muir + Stewart LLP.  Kohler will discuss human resources and legal issues affecting architects during this crisis along with reviewing the stimulus relief measures.

The topics would include:

• Families First Coronavirus Response Act
  • Federally mandated paid leave
  • Federally mandated paid FMLA under certain circumstances
• Pay Reductions
• Furloughs vs layoffs
• Americans with Disabilities Act and Fair Employment and Housing Act
• Compliance with Isolation Orders
• Relief Available From Federal Stimulus Bill

Ryan J. Kohler – Attorney at Law, Collins Collins Muir + Stewart LLP

Ryan Kohler is an attorney that works extensively in the architecture and engineering world on issues of employment, contracts, professional liability, and claim defense. He has worked extensively with design professionals and defended them in trials, arbitrations, and administrative hearings. He counsels clients to help minimize the risk of workplace claims through educating managers, informing principals of legal trends and changes to the law, drafting employee handbooks, providing harassment seminars, advising on terminations and discipline, and litigating employment law issues before the courts and administrative agencies.