Wage & Hour: Mitigating Risks and ensuring Compliance in 2013

Mr. Kalantar is the Chief Operations Officer at EPAY Systems, Inc., a leader in cloud-based time and labor management systems for distributed workforces. Mr. Kalantar leads EPAY’s development efforts in integrating compliance auditing and management capabilities into EPAY’s Blueforce software. Leveraging his knowledge of time and labor systems as well as wage and hour litigation trends, Mr. Kalantar brings those solutions to bear to EPAY’s customers, some of the largest business service contractors in the nation. Before EPAY, Mr. Kalantar was the lead for key development and process engineering at JohnsonDiversey, one of the world’s largest suppliers to the building services, food services, and hospitality industries. Here he designed and implemented multiple customer applications including labor management systems, QA and auditing, sales support channels, supply-chain and service management systems. In 2001, he filed and received a patent on method and apparatus for work management in facility maintenance which launched a number of time and labor management applications and hardware systems.Mr. Kalantar holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Michigan State University and also holds multiple patents

Known for his creative approaches to difficult, high-stakes cases, David Long-Daniels, Co-Chair of Greenberg Traurig’s Global Labor and Employment Practice and Chair of the Atlanta Labor and Employment Practice, represents clients across the country in complex labor and employment matters.David’s practice includes the representation of clients in claims under the Fair Labor Standard Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, Family and Medical Leave Act, Americans With Disabilities Act, civil rights cases, and other federal and state labor and employment matters. A particular focus of David’s practice is representing corporations in class and collective actions. David has defeated class certification in many cases and has tried labor and employment cases in jurisdictions across the United States.David has taught labor and employment as an Adjunct Law Professor at both the University of Alabama School of Law and the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University. David has also written for the Defense Research Institute and has been quoted in The National Law Journal on current legal matters. He has served as a moderator on the in-house and outside counsel relationships and other seminars for the National Bar Association.

Cheryl D. Orr is a partner and cochair of the national Labor & Employment Practice Group. She concentrates her practice on defending employers against FLSA collective actions and state and federal wage and hour class actions. Cheryl also regularly litigates discrimination, harassment, and unfair competition claims, conducts highlevel workplace investigations, develops plans for reductions in force and offers employer advice and counseling.Cheryl is admitted to practice in all California State Courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

• Partner in the Washington Office of Baker & Hostetler LLP. Chair of the Firm’s Employment and Labor Group.
• Over 30 years of experience representing employers in all aspects of labor and employment law, with a particular emphasis on investigations by the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor under the Fair Labor Standards Act and litigation brought by the Solicitor of Labor’s Office.
• Former attorney in the Fair Labor Standards Division of the Office of the Soilcitor of the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C.
• Frequent speaker on wage and hour topics and contributor to Baker Hostetler’s Employment Class Action Blog, offering commentary on recent collective and class action decisions and trends affecting employers.
• Vice Chair of the Labor and Employment Law Committee of the Administrative Law Section of the American Bar Association.
• A.B., Bowdoin College, 1975, summa cum laude; J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1978; Student Editor-In Chief of The Tax Lawyer.
• Office Telephone Number: (202) 861-1638; dgrant@bakerlaw.com.