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As a Cornell graduate or friend, you save $475.00 on the only conference that delivers legal and HR guidance for your industry. The HR in Hospitality Conference, March 13 – 16 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, features sessions focusing on how wage and hour changes affect franchisor-franchisee relationships, the effect of the Noel Canning decision on the hospitality industry, the […]

Members of the Cornell Institute for Hospitality Labor and Employment Relations contributed their time and knowledge to the fourth annual Hotel and Lodging Legal Summit at Georgetown University, one of the foremost conferences on U.S. hospitality law. Several members of the CIHLER advisory board and associates of CIHLER member firms, as well as Director David […]

Center director David Sherwyn was the moderator in November of a Continuing Legal Education Panel at the Hotel and Lodging Legal Summit at Georgetown Law School. The panel examined the legal aspects of union organizing through card-check neutrality agreements. Sherwyn has examined this issue in detail in a report published by the Cornell Center for […]

A National Labor Relations Board ruling that expands the definition of joint employment may well ironically decrease the involvement of franchisors in the franchisees’ employment actions—to the detriment of all parties. In an article published in the American University Business Law Review, Cornell Professors Steven Carvell and David Sherwyn examine the NLRB ruling in the case […]

As the hospitality industry moves ahead in finding ways to document its many sustainability initiatives, participants in the 2012 Cornell Sustainability Roundtable addressed current issues in reporting, benchmarking, the supply chain, and customer sustainability perceptions, as well as innovations in green operations. This year’s roundtable also included a student sustainability competition. As the hospitality industry […]

New York Women Executives in Real Estate, WX, has named Amy Yao ’13 as a winner of one of its WX Scholarships for 2013. WX New York Women Executives in Real Estate is an invitation-only association of executive-level women actively engaged in the commercial real estate industry in New York. Yao was honored for such […]

The first in a series of CREF webcasts focused on the current status of real estate investment in Asia, including methods for investing, the status of capital markets, and how to deal with political instability. The webcast, “Real Estate Practices in Asia: A Primer,” is available on demand. It features two Asian investment experts: Michael […]

A group of visiting scholars have brought an international flair to the Center for Hospitality Research (CHR) during this academic year, both in terms of academic scholarship and cultural enrichment. As part of its program to extend its global reach, the CHR has sponsored two researchers from Spain, one from South Korea, and one from […]