Employment & Labor

Your business is at its best when your workforce is at its best.

UB Greensfelder’s Employment & Labor Practice Group counsels clients on a variety of complex employment and labor challenges. We know that human capital is one of the most valuable resources and most significant expenses for an organization, and we work closely with businesses and organizations to provide employers with the full spectrum of employment and labor representation.

How We Help

Our attorneys represent private and public organizations – ranging from small local businesses to large national corporations, and everything in between – across the U.S. In addition to proactive counseling, we also defend clients in complex litigation matters, including claims involving allegations of discrimination, wrongful termination and FLSA, OSHA, and ERISA non-compliance. We routinely represent our clients in federal and state courts, before federal and state administrative agencies, at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), and in arbitration forums.

Our employment and labor attorneys have substantial experience providing guidance in or solutions to matters including:

• Employee discipline and termination
• Unlawful discrimination
• Unfair labor practice allegations
• Affirmative action plan development and implementation
• Wage and hour issues
• Non-competes, non-disclosures, and trade secret matters
• Employment contracts
• National Labor Relations Act counseling, including union avoidance, union organizing drives/elections, unfair labor practices, and disposition/acquisition of unionized businesses
• OSHA, FLSA, and ERISA compliance and defense
• Collective bargaining negotiations
• Immigration challenges
• Employment investigations

Why Clients Choose UB Greensfelder

When you need answers to your employment law questions, our attorneys will provide thoughtful legal advice and offer it within the context of your larger operation. The HR decisions you make today can have ripple effects and impact decisions you’ll make in the future, and we’ll help guide you through.

The best time to seek counsel in employment and labor matters is before problems occur, when policies and procedures need to be developed and implemented. Knowing that a proactive approach is best, we counsel clients on employee handbook and policy development, train personnel and conduct compliance audits, and guide employers through the labyrinth of public policy regulations, which can change frequently. Employers that are unfamiliar with emerging requirements benefit from the up-to-date knowledge, understanding, and wisdom our attorneys provide.

When disputes arise, our extensive experience trying and defending claims at all administrative and judicial levels and venues enables us to partner with our clients in resolving these disputes in the client’s best interest. We regularly represent our clients before state and federal agencies and in state and federal courts, including many federal appellate courts and state supreme courts. In addition, we regularly represent clients before the National Labor Relations Board and state employment relations boards. We are regularly retained to handle complex, often novel, legal situations employers face, such as class actions.