Webinar

PTO or PT “Oh No!” – Ensuring Compliance While Maximizing Leave Benefits

When: 2pm ET, Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Duration: 60 minutes

Paid Time Off (PTO) and other forms of leave are significant employee benefits, playing a crucial role in preventing burnout, boosting morale and enhancing productivity. They are a powerful recruitment tool, offering considerable advantages at minimal cost. However, the legal complexities surrounding leave – both paid and unpaid – present challenges in compliance and can expose businesses to risks, including possible penalties and litigation. This is particularly challenging for employers operating across multiple states where differing regulations must be followed.

In this 60-minute webinar, attorney Robin Shea, a partner with the management-side employment law firm Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, will address these issues and provide insights into handling leave and PTO. She will explore statutory requirements and effective strategies to manage compliance and mitigate risks, as well as share practical solutions for optimizing PTO as an employee benefit.

Attendees will learn:

• Ways to approach PTO and unpaid leave to address legal complexities effectively
• How to comply with leave requirements across multiple jurisdictions
• Ways that organizations benefit by providing leave benefits
• Steps employers can use to help employees use their leave benefits
• And more!

Robin E. Shea

Partner, Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Robin has more than 30 years’ experience representing employers in most areas of employment law, including state and federal anti-discrimination laws, harassment, retaliation, disability discrimination and reasonable accommodation, reasonable accommodation of religious beliefs, and the Family and Medical Leave Act. She defends employers in the courts and before agencies including the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the U.S. Department of Labor, and also provides preventive advice and conducts training for human resources professionals, management, and employees on a wide variety of topics.

Robin is editor in chief of Constangy’s legal bulletins and its three law blogs Affirmative Action Alert, California Snapshot, and Employment & Labor Insider.