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Camille A. Olson

Camille A. Olson, a partner in the Chicago office of Seyfarth Shaw, was interviewed regarding new litigation explosion -- defending class and collective actions for American Airline's Forbes Business & Technology Channel. The show was titled “Focus on the Executive Employer; Best Practices & Leadership in Labor and Employment.”

To listen to Ms. Olson's interview, click on the Labor and Employment icon at Professional Recruiter's Web site.

Ms. Olson is a partner and chair of the Labor and Employment Law Practice Group of Seyfarth Shaw. She also chairs its interdisciplinary Task Force on Contingent Workforce Issues.

Her years of practice have concentrated on all areas of labor and employment law. She has represented companies nationwide in challenges of independent contractor status of workers, employment discrimination and sexual harassment matters, issues related to a unionized environment, union election campaigns and wage-hour matters.

And she has extensive litigation practice against the solicitor's office of the United States Department of Labor, the Internal Revenue Service, the National Labor Relations Board, state unemployment compensation departments, and plaintiffs in wrongful termination and employment discrimination lawsuits,

She has also worked extensively with numerous associations on legal issues relating to the use of non-employee workers, including: Air Courier Conference of America; American Association of Meat Processors; Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce; Illinois Manufacturers' Association; Illinois State Chamber of Commerce; Information Technology Association of America; The Management Association of Illinois; Messenger Courier Association of the Americas; Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council; National Association of the Remodeling Industry; National Public Employer Labor Relations Association; New England Newspaper Association; National Tour Association; Newspaper Association of America (NAA); Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce; Northern States Circulation Managers Association; Mississippi Circulation Managers Association; National Newspaper Association; the Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania and California Newspaper Publishers Association; Association of Free Community Papers and Inland Press Association.

In 1996, Camille submitted comments on behalf of a coalition of more than 20,000 employers on the IRS' Training Guide, "Employee or Independent Contractor?" and worked with the National Newspaper Association, the NAA and the American Association of Independent News Distributors to successfully amend the Internal Revenue Code to add industry-specific exemptions excluding newspaper distributors from the definition of "employee." During the last 10 years, she assisted state lobbying efforts and members of Congress and individuals testifying before Congressional Committees in connection with pending legislation seeking to revise the current legal standards governing the use of independent contractors and the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

In California, she has provided counsel to a number of state lobbying efforts in connection with the application of various child labor restrictions to newspaper solicitors. In 1999, she represented NAA as amicus curiae before the National Labor Relations Board about the appropriate factual and legal analysis to apply to independent contractor status under the National Labor Relations Act.

Camille is a frequent speaker on all issues relating to the use of independent contractors, and has published numerous articles and chapters on various labor issues. Most recently, she published two chapters about the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and Independent Contractors in Federal Employment Laws and Regulations -- How to Comply (2000). She also co-edited "An Overview of Wage and Hour Laws As They Apply to Newspapers," published by NAA, the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Media Human Resources Association (2000). She serves as contributing editor of the NAA's Monthly Labor and Employment Law Letter. Monthly, Camille publishes "Ask Seyfarth," a column that answers a wide range of employment-related questions in The Inlander. Recently, Camille also has been quoted on labor and employment issues in publications such as The Chicago Tribune, Crains Chicago Business, Presstime, Editor & Publisher, HR Magazine and HR Wire.