Fall 2018 CUE Conference: Powerful and Resilient: Ensuring Success Together

Fall 2018 CUE Conference: Powerful and Resilient: Ensuring Success Together  

Every year, CUE Inc. conducts two national conferences, one in the Spring and the other in the Fall. These events attract labor and employee relations professionals, labor lawyers and consultants from across North America and across the globe. Our members and attendees represent virtually every industry, and companies ranging from small businesses to large Fortune 100 employers.

While attending our conferences, attendees take part in sessions offering a cutting-edge focus on pro-active human resources practices, and the latest developments in labor and employee relations. CUE conferences offer unparalleled networking opportunities with hundreds of other labor relations, human resources and operations management professionals.

The Fall 2018 CUE conference is designed to provide real, actionable employee engagement ideas that you can implement immediately and create an environment for positive employee relations.

Check out the list of topics and speakers below, and register here.

Employee Engagement

• Keynote: Phil Wilson- Leadership Approachability and Improving Retention
• How Best Buy Fosters an Engaged Culture
• Inclusion: Employer Best Practices
• Moving Beyond the Employee Survey – Fiona Jamison

Positive Employee Relations

• Emerging Trends: Alt-labor, Supply Chain, and Community Based Organizing – Target
• 2018 Labor Law and Policy Update
• Labor Relations 101 – Clyde Jacob
• Case Study: Minnesota Home Health Care Campaign – Doug Seaton
• Anatomy of an Organizing Campaign – Peter List
• Ask an Organizer
• CUE Labor and Employee Relations Certification Course

Driving Business Outcomes

• Keynote: Sarah Morgan – Beyond Political Correctness — Inclusion and Equality in Modern Employee Relations
• The Cost of Unionization and ROI of remaining union-free – Jim Gray
• Amazon: Using Virtual Reality to Improve and Scale Positive Employee Relations Training, Michael Marko, Amazon and Mark Atkinson, Mursion
• Your Brand is in Trouble: Internal and External Crisis Communication Planning – Nick Kalm
• Best Practices: Non-Traditional Hiring

Registration Open! Fall 2018 CUE Labor and Employee Relations Conference

Registration Open! Fall 2018 CUE Labor and Employee Relations Conference
Early Bird Pricing for Minneapolis for Members!

Registration is now open with a limited number of early bird registrations available at only $800.

Our Fall 2018 Conference will be held in Minneapolis September 23-25th. The theme for this conference is focused on how we can use our extended CUE community to improve positive employee relations and drive successful business outcomes for your organization.

Confirmed speakers and topics include:

• Keynote: Phil Wilson, Leadership Approachability and Improving Retention

• Keynote: Sarah Morgan, Beyond Political Correctness — Inclusion and Equality in Modern Employee Relations

• Target Campaign Case Study

• Employee Engagement

• Labor and Employee Relations Policy/Legal Updates

• Leveraging Business Outcomes with Positive Employee Relations

• CUE Labor and Employee Relations Certification Course

• Beyond the Employee Survey

• Crisis Communication and PER

Minnesota county court rules in favor of $15 minimum wage

Minnesota county court rules in favor of $15 minimum wage

A Minnesota county district court ruled in favor of a Minneapolis city ordinance raising the minimum wage in a decision posted Tuesday. 

The ordinance, passed in June, raised the hourly minimum in Minneapolis to $10 starting in January. Wages will then increase each July until they reach $15, with large businesses given until 2022 and small businesses until 2024 to meet the mark.

“The Minnesota Fair Labor Standard Act, the state minimum wage law, sets a floor for minimum wages, leaving room for municipalities to pass minimum wage ordinances to meet the needs of their communities,” Hennepin County Court wrote in its decision. “For these reasons, the court finds that the Minneapolis Minimum Wage Ordinance is not in conflict with or preempted by state law.”

Workers’ advocate groups praised the ruling.

“This is a big win for Minneapolis’ working families,” said Laura Huizar, a staff attorney with the National Employment Law Project. “It means the city remains on track to raise wages for one in five Minneapolis workers.”