PGC will be hosting an informative roundtable session on how to onboard and employ contract workers while managing compliance, leveraging technology and scaling. PGC’s Catriona O’Kane will be joined by Richard Steer from Tarter Krinsky & Drogin’s Labor and Employment Group.

This Q&A style event offers you the opportunity to ask the back-office experts and learn processes and procedures to implement back into your operations.

Topics to be covered include;

• Onboarding
• Misclassification – is your worker a W2, 1099 or IC?
• Classification for exempt and non-exempt process
• I-9 and e-verify

SPEAKERS:

Catriona O'Kane, Business Development Manager
Catriona is Business Development Manager for PGC. She consults with staffing agencies to understand their existing back office operations and processes and identify how implementing technology can allow for scale and growth. Catriona specializes topics such as onboarding, payroll, I-9 process and worker compensation. Born in Ireland, Catriona has worked in the UK and Europe before moving to the US, and in her free time loves to cook.

Richard L. Steer, Partner and Chair of Employment Practices Liability Insurance Practice
Rich is a partner in Tarter Krinsky & Drogin’s Labor and Employment Group and chair of the firm’s Employment Practices Liability Insurance (EPLI) practice. He defends and counsels employers, including staffing companies and their owners and supervisors, in employment discrimination, wage & hour and labor litigation. In addition, Rich often provides risk management training programs to clients and trade associations. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America (2014-2020) and New York City Super Lawyers (2010-2019) and is an adjunct professor of law at Pace University’s law school.