We counsel in all issues of the employer-employee relationship for both private and public sectors.

Private sector clients span many industries, from service entities to transportation, education, real estate construction and management, hotel and convention centers, and manufacturing firms. We know the National Labor Relations Act, and represent clients in organizing campaigns as well as defending unfair labor practice allegations.

Public sector employer clients include of public universities, colleges, school departments, municipalities and municipal utilities with their labor relations and employment law matters.  Many of our clients employ professors, administrators, teachers, police, fire and public works employees.  We facilitate in the negotiating process, the defense of charges of prohibited practice and in arbitration cases.  We routinely appear at the Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission, the Civil Service Commission and various other state agencies and state courts.

For clients whose employees are already unionized, we are directly involved in collective bargaining negotiations, NLRB proceedings, protection of employer interests in strikes and picketing, and the representation of employers in arbitration proceedings.  We also advise employers how to develop union relationships that meet management aims, using strategies and techniques such as joint training programs and obtaining the union’s total involvement leading to a labor contract.

We prepare and review employee handbooks, employment agreements, releases, termination and severance agreements, and the prepare non-competition, non-solicitation and confidentiality agreements.

We know collaboration and education can avoid employee complaints and minimizing threats of litigation. So we offer training for clients and employees in discrimination and harassment prevention, union solicitation and  statutory requirements like overtime or child labor laws. 

We deal with issues arising under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, as well as the Workers Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), and the Consolidated Omnibus and Budget Reorganization Act (COBRA), and their parallel state statutes which may involve handicap, sexual harassment, age and other claims of discrimination.