The recent news of the hostage-taking and subsequent deaths of natural gas employees in Algeria serves as a tragic reminder that workers abroad can find themselves in harm’s way even at a worksite as remote as the Sahara desert.

Proactive multinationals are taking steps to align, across their worldwide operations, those aspects of health and safety with a cross-border dimension, such as by launching global pandemic policies and global sets of cardinal safety rules. Indeed, the cross-jurisdictional aspects to workplace health and safety compliance tend to cluster at the "micro" and the "macro" ends of the spectrum - the "micro" level of protecting individual expatriates and individual business travelers, such as staff sent into danger zones, and the "macro" level of propagating company-wide initiatives on basic workplace health and safety topics, such as global safety and pandemic policies. What is a company's duty of care in "black swan" situations like this? What's HR's role to ensure due diligence prior to these events taking place from a moral and legal perspective? 

This webinar will address both the "micro" and the "macro" levels of international workplace health and safety compliance, first by exploring multinationals' duty to protect individual employees overseas, in danger zones and otherwise, and then by addressing cross-border workplace health and safety initiatives, like global cardinal safety rules and global pandemic plans launched across a multinational's workforces worldwide.

Also, this webinar will define “duty of care” and how HR can ensure this obligation further supports safeguarding the health and safety of its global workforce.

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Donald C. Dowling, Jr., White & Case Partner and the Firm’s International Employment Counsel and Lisbeth Claus, Ph.D, SPHR, GPHR, Professor of Global Human Resources at the Atkinson Graduate School of Management of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon

Donald C. Dowling, Jr.,a White & Case partner and the Firm’s International Employment Counsel, concentrates his practice on cross-border human resources law issues for multinational employers.

Don is one of two lawyers in the US ranked in the top tier (“Leading”) in the only competitive ranking of international labor/employment lawyers, London-based PLC Which Lawyer?, and he is ranked by Chambers as one of the top 34 Labor & Employment lawyers in New York.

Multinationals globalizing their business operations increasingly need to align certain aspects of employment law compliance across borders, and Don has over 15 years of experience managing multiple-jurisdiction employment law compliance initiatives.


Lisbeth Claus, Ph.D, SPHR, GPHR, is a Professor of Global Human Resources at the Atkinson Graduate School of Management of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon (USA). Prior to joining Willamette University, she held faculty and  administrative positions at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and managerial positions at Safety Inc. and Maritz Inc. Dr. Claus has been widely published in academic and professional journals on subject matters related to a wide variety of global HR management issues. She is recognized as a leading expert on global and cross-border employee issues. Additionally, she was the 2003 President of SHRM Global (then known as the international division of the Society for Human Resource Management). In 2004, SHRM commissioned her to design the GPHR (Global Professional in Human Resources) Certification Preparation Course™.