NEW YORK, December 5, 2022 — John Ho, co-chair of Cozen O'Connor’s OSHA-Workplace Safety Practice, will serve as the management track co-chair for the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Track program for the 17th ABA Annual Section of Labor and Employment Law Conference in Seattle from November 8-11, 2023. Track co-chairs work together as a group to propose programs and faculty for their track. The Annual Section Conference has become the premier CLE event for labor and employment lawyers, with over 1,000 attendees from all over the country and internationally.
John exclusively represents employers in all labor and employment matters and regularly handles wage and hour matters involving federal and state laws, such as the Fair Labor Standards Act, the New York Labor Law, New York’s Miscellaneous Industries Wage Order, and New York’s Hospitality Wage Order which includes numerous cases involving New York’s Wage Theft Prevention Act, tip credits and pooling, deduction from wages and regular rate issues. John also routinely works with the Occupational Safety and Health Act, in addition to handling discrimination and retaliation claims, ADA public accommodation cases, misclassification of independent contractors, drafting employee handbook policies and executive employment contracts, non-competes, and conducting workplace harassment and discrimination investigations.
Prior to entering private practice, John served as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor where he prosecuted, among other things, FLSA and OSHA cases.
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