Christine Liu McLaughlin is a shareholder in the Labor & Employment Law Practice Group in the Milwaukee office. Christine provides counsel on employee hiring, discipline and termination issues; family and medical leave issues; federal and state disability discrimination issues; federal and state civil rights and fair employment issues; sexual and other unlawful harassment issues; workplace violence issues; affirmative action and compliance reviews; and contingent workforce issues. Christine has conducted workshops and seminars on these and other employment law topics in Wisconsin as well as nationally. She was instrumental in the creation and implementation of Legal Resource Training, Godfrey & Kahn's interactive training service initiated as a proactive tool to help clients avoid employment litigation. Christine also advises on employment, contract and business entry issues relating to China. Christine was previously in-house counsel and Director of Employee Relations for the world's leading staffing service. Prior to her in-house experience, Christine was in private practice in Iowa where she focused on litigation with an emphasis on labor and employment. Christine is licensed to practice in both Iowa and Wisconsin. She is a member of the American Bar Association, Labor & Employment and Litigation Sections, Wisconsin State Bar Association, and Milwaukee Bar Association. Christine is also a member of the Society for Human Resource Management and the Human Resource Management Association of Southeastern Wisconsin. She received her undergraduate degree from Marquette University in communications and her law degree from Marquette University Law School.
Publications
"Labor and Employment Law Vantage Point - Winter 2007/2008" February 08, 2008
"China Adopts New Labor Contract Law" September 12, 2007
"Employee Recruitment in China is Challenging"
Small Business Times
August 17, 2007
"Attraction and Retention of Chinese Employees: A Legal Perspective" May 22, 2007
"Can We Use Gender in Our Hiring Decisions? The Discrimination Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ) Applied to Health Care"
March 13, 2007
"China's Labor Law Changes Will Have Big Impact"
Small Business Times
January 19, 2007
"Federal Affirmative Action Obligations of Banks"
Wisconsin Community Banking News
January-February 2007
"Major Labor Law Changes Will Impact Employers in China"
November 28, 2006
"California Mandates Sexual Harassment Training"
March 2005.
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