(Asheville, NC): The district director of the U.S. Department of
Labor Wage & Hour Division will be the featured speaker at the next
regular meeting of the Western North Carolina Human Resources
Association, held at 12 noon on Wednesday, May 14 at Renaissance
Asheville Hotel in downtown Asheville.
Since 1999, John Blaine has served as district director of
the Charlotte, N.C. Wage & Hour Division office, overseeing wage and
hour activities in Western North Carolina and an area that includes
Fayetteville, Winston-Salem and points west. He has been with the
Department of Labor for almost 25 years.
Among the laws for which Blaine is held responsible are: the
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which sets minimum wage, overtime
pay, recordkeeping, and child labor standards; the Family Medical
Leave Act; the Migrant and Seasonal Worker Protection Act, affecting
agricultural workers; the garnishment provisions of the Consumer
Credit Protection Act; several provisions of the immigration laws;
the Employee Polygraph Protection Act; and the Davis Bacon and
Service Contract Acts, which govern federal contractors.
The program is open to members, students and anyone
interested in learning more about human resource- and
management-related issues. Reservations are required by 5pm
Friday, May 9 and can be made by emailing Terry Clark at
tclark@biltmore.com, or by calling 255-1133. The cost to
attend the lunch meeting is $16 for members and students, $20 for
nonmembers, and includes lunch (a vegetarian option is available by
request when making reservations).
The Western North Carolina Human
Resources Association is a certified chapter of the Society for
Human Resource Management (SHRM), and is comprised of human resource
and other professionals from various area businesses and industries.
The purpose of the association is to develop the personnel function
in each participating company by close contact and cooperation with
others in the same field, to facilitate the dissemination of
information of value to human resource professionals individually
and collectively, and to promote positive human relations
principles.
