Event Details
Looking Backward and Forward: Annual Employment Law Update
| Date: | January 13, 2026, 8:00am – 10:00am |
| Organizer: | SHRA |
| Location: | Lighthouse Credit Union Headquarters 100 Lighthouse Dr Dover, NH 03820 |
| Price: | MEMBERS: $15 Virtual, $25 In-Person / NON-MEMBERS: $25 Virtual, $45 In-Person |
| Event Type: | Monthly Program |
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Register HERE! Please note that you must register by Wednesday, January 7th.
Description:
This program will provide a fast-paced look at the legal developments that occurred in 2025 and what HR professionals will need to know for 2026. Topics will include:
- Evolving Concepts in Discrimination Law and How Courts and Agencies are Addressing Them
- Wage and Hour Law Updates and Requirements
- New State Leave Laws
- Legislative Update
- Developments in Multi-State Laws on Restrictive Covenants
Learning objectives:
Attendees will:
- Get up-to-date information on State and Federal legal issues impacting the workplace.
- Learn best practices on evolving legal standards and trends
About our Speakers:
Andrea G. Chatfield: Andrea provides practical advice and guidance to employers on risk management issues in the workplace. This includes both day-to-day personnel decisions that can have a high degree of liability if not done carefully, and high level policy-making decisions, such as developing employee handbooks, executive employment agreements, non-competition agreements, social media policies, and other organizational protocols.
Andrea has successfully represented employers of all types and sizes before administrative agencies in discrimination, whistleblower, unemployment, and wage disputes.
Andrea also serves as an outside investigator for employers who need to respond to highly sensitive internal complaints of discrimination and harassment. In addition, Andrea develops and conducts in-house trainings for businesses and other employers in such matters as preventing workplace harassment and how to manage within the law. She is frequently a public speaker on employment law topics.
She is admitted to practice in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and she has earned an “AV” rating from Martindale Hubbell. Andrea is listed in Chambers USA as one of the leading employment lawyers in New Hampshire and in Best Lawyers of America® for Employment Law – Management (recognized in 2019 as “Lawyer of the Year” in Manchester in the area of Employment Law – Management). Andrea received the 2022 Ry Perry HR Hero Award at the Granite State HR Conference. In addition, she has served as the Government Relations & Legislative Chair for the HR State Council of New Hampshire. She serves as the Vice Chair of the HR/Healthcare/Workforce Development Committee for the Business & Industry Association of NH, and was awarded with a 2022 Above & Beyond Award for her work in advancing the BIA’s mission.
Jennifer Shea Moeckel: Jen devotes her practice to assisting employers with compliance during all phases of the employment relationship and defending employers in discrimination and other claims pending before state and federal agencies. Jen provides training on issues including harassment prevention and managing within the law. She also conducts workplace investigations and defends employers before the New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and state and federal Departments of Labor. Jen frequently presents on employment law topics for business, industry, and employer groups.
Jen is recognized by Chambers USA as one of New Hampshire’s leading Employment Law attorneys, is listed in Best Lawyers of America® for Employment Law – Management (recognized in 2015, 2017, and 2025 as “Lawyer of the Year” in Manchester in the area of Employment Law – Management), is a New England Super Lawyer in the area of Employment and Labor, and is Martindale Hubbell Peer Review rated AV®. Jen is appointed by the New Hampshire Supreme Court to serve as a member of the New Hampshire Board of Bar Examiners.
Thank you to our sponsor:
CANCELLATION POLICY: Refunds will be given up until the Wednesday before the meeting. Please reach out to shranhcommunications@gmail.com if you can no longer attend and would like a refund. If you sign up for a meeting and no show, no refund will be given and if payment had not yet been received, you will be charged for the meeting to cover the cost of breakfast. Thank you for understanding as we are a non-profit organization.
