Outsourcing Law & Business Journal™: March 2009
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Vol. 9, No. 3 (March, 2009)
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1. Extraterritorial Application of U.S. Policy on Sexual Discrimination: Risks and Benefits of an Evolving Role of Business “Code of Conduct” in Promoting American Public Policy for Human Rights.
2. Humor.
3. Conferences.
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1. Extraterritorial Application of U.S. Policy on Sexual Discrimination: Risks and Benefits of an Evolving Role of Business “Code of Conduct” in Promoting American Public Policy for Human Rights. In his book “Coexistence and Commerce,” Samuel Pisar, an international business lawyer who advised John F. Kennedy on economic policy regarding the Soviet Union, argued that commerce with totalitarian countries would be socially as well as economically beneficial, without the need to explicitly seek to change the local political order in the foreign countries. In 2009, Representative Carolyn Maloney (D., N.Y.) proposed the “International Women’s Freedom Act of 2009” (H.R. 606, 111th Cong., 1st Sess.) that attempts to legislate foreign cultural and legal mores. It would mandate the U.S. President to adopt some form of international diplomatic action against countries that fail to meet American standards on protection of women’s rights. Of interest to buyers and sellers of global services, the bill even calls on businesses to engage in politics in their codes of conduct. Click here for full article.
2. Humor.
Restructuring, (n). (1) conversion of private equity to public ownership or control; (2) substitution of one clueless master for another.
Change Management Procedure, (n). (1) new regulations to fill the gap where old regulations were not enforced; (2) bankruptcy proceedings.
3. Conferences.
April 27-29, 2009, IQPC’s 7th Annual e-Discovery Conference, San Francisco, California. Join this year’s conference to learn more about managing the process of electronic discovery files and to explore options that are available for this task. Proactive e-discovery solutions are more critical to legal departments yet the solutions for costs, implementation, and management are still widely unknown. This conference will provide strategies for e-discovery success including proactive strategies for record management; global privacy issues, data security laws, regulations; specific cost control options; judicial perspective; and cutting edge software solutions. For more info, click here.
April 29-30, 2009, WRG’s Corporate IP Counsel Summit: Crafting an IP Strategy to Match Corporate Goals, New York , New York. This inaugural event comes at a pivotal time for Corporate IP Counsel across industries. Not only will the new administration be in office but also we will begin to see the repercussions from the upswing in Supreme Court and Federal Circuit cases in 2008 that will affect IP in 2009 and on. Difficult economic times call for thinking outside the box and sharing of best practices. This event is the premier forum to hear about solutions that your IP peers have implemented to maximize their existing IP assets, avoid costly litigation, create and maintain efficient infrastructure, fully integrate IP strategy into business plans, prepare for anticipated patent law changes, and more. Save $500 off the current registration rate! Mention promo code BDQ764 when registering. To register, call World Research Group at 800-647-7600 or visit our website.
7th Annual HRO World ™ Conference & Expo at NY HR Week ™, New York , New York. At the Hilton, this is the leading event for learning proven advice from the HR outsourcing industry’s most respected practitioners, analysts and vendors. You’ll take away solutions for the strategic and operational challenges associated with HR outsourcing and retained functions. With a dozen breakout sessions, presentations from leading organizations including Bank of America, US Postal Service and Hertz Europe, and an Industry Leaders’ Panel, you’ll find solutions to your most pressing outsourcing challenges. Register by April 10 with Source code HROL and save $100. Register online or call 1-800-727-1227.
May 11-14, 2009, 9th Annual European Shared Services and Outsourcing Week 2009, Budapest, Hungary. Featuring the annual global Shared Services Excellence Awards, where the shared services and sourcing world shapes its future. Novotel Budapest Congress, Hungary. This event is the European arm of a global series of regional flagship events designed to bring together everybody who’s anybody in the combined worlds of captive shared services and outsourcing. SSOW is the largest gathering of Shared Services professionals in Europe and home to the annual Shared Services Excellence Awards. This multifunctional programme covers transformation strategies for all back office functions from Finance, HR, IT, procurement – through to multifunctional hubs. Whatever scale and whatever size of the organisation, if you’re pushing back office efficiency through a captive, outsourced, or mixed model route, this is the must attend event for your continent. Join over 60 contributors PLUS limited 2-for-1 offer (for practitioners only, terms and conditions apply) when you quote code MP16. Early-Bird registration: save up to 350 EUR if you register before Friday 27th March 2009. For more information: Email: enquire@SSOWeek.com , Tel: +44 (0) 207 368 9300 or visit our website.
May 18-20, 2009, IQPC’s 6th Annual HR Shared Services & Outsourcing Summit, Chicago, Illinois. The 6th Annual HR Shared Services Summit is the most important event of the year for HR leaders seeking to re-align their services with the strategic requirements of the business. This successful event brings together senior HR leaders in an exciting interactive forum, delivering best practice case studies aimed at optimizing every stage within the HR transformation process. Given historic economic conditions, it’s more important than ever that HR leaders exploit the dramatic economies of scale that are available to them through shared service structures. And for more mature companies – those that have already made the transition to an HR shared service model – there is an urgent need to re-align the kinds of services they offer with increasingly tough business challenges. Click here for more info.
June 7-9, 2009, The 3rd Annual Shared Services Exchange, Miami, Florida. This is an invitation-only gathering for VP and C-Level senior executives made up of highly crafted, executive level conference sessions, interactive “Brain Weave” discussions, engaging networking opportunities and strategic one-on-one advisory meetings between solution providers and delegates. With a distinguished speaking faculty from Coca-Cola, CIGNA, American Electric Power, AOL and Safeway, amongst others, the seats at the 2009 Exchange are limited and filling up quickly. We have limited complimentary invitations available for qualified delegates for a limited time. Please give us your reference ‘Outsourcing-Law’ when inquiring. There are solution provider opportunities also available for companies who want to be represented. You can request your invitation at exchange@iqpc.com or call us at 1866-296-4580. Visit our website.
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