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PUBLIC RELATIONS | LEGISLATION | SAFETY | PUBLIC RELATIONS
| LEGISLATION | SAFETY | PUBLIC RELATIONS | SAFETY
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Public Relations Team Hits the Ground Running!! First off, the Public Relations Team would like to take a few minutes to introduce themselves to all of you: Public Relations Chairman: Mitula Patel – Cell #818-292-2876 Email – mrpiwla@sbcglobal.net Public Relations Liaison: Gina Thomas Patterson, CISR - ginatpatterson@aol.com Communications Liaison: Wendy Pike, CPCU, CPIW - wendy_pike@yahoo.com Education Liaison: Kathleen Soares, CIC, AAI, AIS, CPIW, DAE - mollykat50@earthlink.net Safety Liaison: Pamela Heard, CISR, CPIW – pheard@hoffmanbrown.com Legislation Liaison: Rebecca B. Aherne, Esq - raherne@khklaw.com The entire team has been given some pretty hefty goals for the coming year, and you will be hearing from them often with ideas in each of their areas for ways to get more exposure for your Association, Educational & Professional Development Opportunities, Networking within our organization, and Community Action challenges just to name a few. You will also notice changes to the CA Council Website coming soon thanks to our Communication Liaison, Wendy Pike. Please feel free to contact any of the team members with any questions you have. Have a great idea you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line anytime. It is also the time of the year for the CWC application submissions from the California Associations for the Speak off being held at the Council Meeting on September 24, 2010. We would love to have someone from your association and a Member at Large compete in CWC at the Council meeting this year. Remember, anyone who has ever taken a CWC class at any time may compete. Those who have competed in the past (except Regional winners, who must wait 3 years) are invited to compete again. We urge you to think of your current members, and help someone out by twisting their arm a bit! It is a very proud moment for any Association when they are represented at the Council meeting. Attached is an application and a copy of the speak-off rules. The rules include presenting a 3 minute speech topic to those in attendance at our California Council Meeting in September 2010. The topic criteria has remained the same in recent years: Claims, Current P/C issues, Current L/H issues, or one of the following: Education, Legislation or Networking. Please contact me with any questions, and let me know if you have any problems opening the attachments and we will fax them to you. We would really like to have all of the applications back no later than September 15, 2010.In fellowship, Mitula Patel Public Relations Chair, California Council of NAIW (International) Community Action Chair, Insurance Women Of Los Angeles, Inc. mrpiwla@sbcglobal.net Phone 818-292-2876 Employers- Get a Severance Sign-off
Employers often use severance pay as a way to fend off possible lawsuits by departing employees. But here's the catch: If you don't require the employee to sign a waiver of all rights to sue you in exchange for the severance, you can be sued anyway. Whenever you offer severance an employee is not otherwise entitled to, be sure to get a valid release of claims--otherwise, you might just be throwing money away. To help ensure the release will hold up in court; keep the following tips in mind: 1) Put the agreement in language the employee can understand, avoiding complicated legalese. Article by: Victor Mena, President- HR & Safety Compliance, Inc. |
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