Labor, Employment and Immigration

 Our work includes:

• Advising on compliance with the ever-expanding body of federal, state, local and international laws applicable to employers, including laws concerning discrimination and harassment, employee disabilities and leaves, proper overtime classification of exempt and non-exempt employees under overtime laws, background checks and privacy issues; 
• Advising on reductions in force and other employee separations and discipline, including “adverse impact” reviews;
• Conducting and advising on sexual harassment investigations and other internal investigations, including “whistleblower” and white collar matters;
• Drafting and negotiation of employment-related agreements and plans, including executive employment contracts, retention agreements, noncompetition and other restrictive covenants, separation agreements, arbitration agreements and bonus and severance plans;
• Preparation of employment policies, such as employee handbooks, codes of conduct and electronic communications policies;
• Counseling on all aspects of labor-management relations, ranging from negotiation of labor agreements to advising on representation elections to handling of strikes and other disputes;
• Counseling in other niche areas such as compliance with immigration laws, the Railway Labor Act and the Occupational and Mine Safety & Health Acts; and
• Advising on the effective use of, and representation of clients in, arbitration, mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.