Labor and Employment Law Hot Topics & Global Issues

Rebecca Marks is Of Counsel to the International Practice Group of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., which provides worldwide labor and employment law support in over 100 countries. Her expertise includes crafting practical, business-centric advice on international employment issues for U.S. management of multinational corporations. She supports human resources internationally and manages outside foreign counsel to achieve best results in employment relations issues including wage and hour, discrimination allegations, disciplinary procedures, performance improvement, terminations and enforcement of non-competes. Rebecca also prepares and provides advice on employment policies, contracts, termination agreements and global mobility. Prior to joining Ogletree, Rebecca was Senior Corporate Counsel responsible for international employment issues in 20+ different countries for Pegasystems Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is proficient in French and has lived 22 years in France, Australia, Spain, Peru, Argentina and Brazil.

Anne Marie Lofaso is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development at the West Virginia University College of Law, where she teaches Labor Law, Employment Law, Comparative and International Work Law, and Socioeconomics. Professor Lofaso writes primarily in the areas of labor law, comparative/international labor law, and mine safety and health. She is a prolific author of scholarly articles, policy papers, and popular pieces. 

Her articles have been published in a variety of law reviews including the Harvard Law and Policy Review. She is also a co author on MODERN LABOR LAW IN THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECTORS: CASES AND MATERIALS (with Seth Harris, Joseph Slater, and David Gregory) (LEXIS publishing, forthcoming 2013). Her current research focuses on the question whether empirical studies and/or jurisprudential rationales justify raising the statutory floor of employment rights or encouraging the practice of collective bargaining. She is a contributing editor to the online journal Jotwell (reviewing labor law articles); a senior editor of an international labor law treatise; and a contributing editor for a major labor law treatise. 

Before entering teaching, Lofaso was a senior attorney with the National Labor Relations Board's Appellate and Supreme Court Branches for ten years and a law clerk for the Hon. James L. Oakes, US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Lofaso earned her A.B., magna cum laude, Harvard University, J.D., University of Pennsylvania, and D.Phil., University of Oxford.

Johan Lubbe is a shareholder at Littler Mendelson, the largest management-side workplace law firm in the U.S.  The firm has over 1,000 employment lawyers in 56 offices across the U.S. and Latin America.  Johan is the U.S. Practice Co-Chair of the firm’s International Employment Law Practice Group.
 

Johan Lubbe provides strategic advice and counseling to multinational employers on a wide range of global employment law, labor relations, human resources, and data privacy matters. Who's Who Legal noted in its survey that Johan is "greatly admired" for his expertise in data privacy and the workplace. Johan also regularly advises foreign companies that do business in the U.S. on the compliance requirements of U.S. workplace law. Johan is an experienced trial lawyer and negotiator with unions.

Johan testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in  June 2013 regarding labor issues in Bangladesh (following the collapse of a factory building and other factory fires) and he has been advising the U.S. garment and apparel industry regarding their corporate social responsibility response to improve the health and safety of garment factory workers in Bangladesh.

Johan holds law degrees from leading law schools in the U.S., England and South Africa.  He started his legal career as a labor lawyer in South Africa and has been practicing in the U.S. for the past 18 years. He has authored a number of articles on cross-border employment issues, and is a frequent speaker at international employment law conferences in the U.S. and overseas.

Johan is recognized as a leading employment lawyer in a number of publications, including Best Lawyers in the U.S., Practical Law Company’s Labour and Employee Benefits Cross-border Handbook, Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Labour and Employment Lawyers, The International Who's Who of Management Labour and Employment Lawyers, and the Legal Media Group’s The Best of the Best. Johan has also been recognized as a Super Lawyer in New York since 2007.