Practices / Labor & Employment
Workforce counseling, executive arrangements, and employment litigation.
Our labor and employment practice handles workforce restructurings, executive separations, non-compete enforcement, and employment litigation in federal and state courts. We have defended collective actions under the FLSA and pattern-or-practice investigations by the EEOC.
We treat workforce issues as business issues — a reduction-in-force is also a securities disclosure and an employee-relations matter, and we coordinate all three.
Defended an industrial manufacturer in an FLSA collective action alleging off-the-clock work across 28 facilities.
Decertified the collective; individual settlements at a fraction of exposure.
Defended a financial services firm in an EEOC pattern-or-practice investigation into promotion practices.
Investigation closed with a letter of determination; no cause finding.
Coordinated a reduction-in-force affecting 2,800 employees across 22 countries, with concurrent securities disclosure and works council consultation.
Implemented on schedule; no litigation filed.