Labor, Employment & Employee Benefits

Our Labor, Employment, & Employee Benefits Section assists employers with managing their workforces. Section attorneys have extensive experience helping employers who do business in the Pacific Region, including the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Hawaii, California and Mexico. Our clientele includes businesses from the hospitality/tourism, restaurant, government contracting, health care, retail, insurance, transportation, maritime, energy, telecommunications, education, and finance industries. We also perform substantial work for foreign investors doing business in the United States. We provide assistance in many areas including the following:

• Wrongful termination (e.g. risk management, litigation)
• Equal employment opportunity (e.g. discrimination litigation, ADA compliance, sexual harassment training)
  
• Labor law (e.g. NLRB proceedings, union organizing, collective bargaining, strikes, arbitration)
  
• Wage and hour (e.g. FLSA)
  
• Government contracting (e.g. procurement, bid disputes, Davis-Bacon, Service Contracts Act, Affirmative Action)
  
• Employee benefits (e.g. FMLA, HIPAA, health insurance, workers' compensation, benefit plans, severance, ERISA and COBRA litigation)
  
• Business transactions and operations (e.g. labor aspects of acquisitions, sales, mergers, reorganizations, joint ventures, plant closing notices, subcontracting)
  
• Personnel management (e.g. handbooks, personnel policies, employment contracts, independent contractors, management training)
  
• Safety and health (e.g. OSHA, drug testing, workplace violence, physical examinations)
  
• Immigration (e.g. I-9 Forms, IRCA discrimination claims, nonresident alien contract workers, visas, labor certificates)

Labor, Employment & Employee Benefits Attorneys