Kegler, Brown, Hill & Ritter’s labor & employee relations practice provides experience in:
- Hiring
- Employment applications and interviews
- ADA considerations
- Pre-employment testing
- Offer letters
- Employment Agreements
- Confidential information
- Covenants not to compete
- Golden parachutes
- Personnel Policies and Practices
- Employer handbooks
- Harassment
- Family and Medical Leave Act
- Wages and Hours
- Child Labor
- Fair Labor Standards Act requirements (minimum wage, overtime)
- Government contracts
- Affirmative Action plans
- Equal Pay Act
- Prevailing wage law
- Workplace Environment
- Harassment policies
- Employee/manager training
- ADA accommodations
- Drug testing
- Termination of Employment
- At-will employment
- Separation agreements and releases
- COBRA compliance
- Reduction in force
- RIF planning
- WARN Act compliance
- OWBPA compliance
- Employee Safety
- OSHA compliance
- Defense of OSHA citations
- Workers’ Compensation
- Defense of workers’ compensation claims
- VSSR (violation of specific safety requirement) claim defense
- Intentional tort litigation
- Workers' compensation retaliation claims
- Employment-Related Litigation
- Covenants not to compete; trade secrets
- Common law employment claims
- Defamation
- Invasion of privacy
- Negligent hiring/retention/supervision
- Intentional infliction of emotional distress
- Employment termination claims
- Contract
- Promissory estoppel
- Discrimination
- Harassment
- Retaliation
- Wrongful discharge in violation of public policy
- FMLA litigation
- Unemployment compensation claims
- Independent Contractors
- Independent contractor agreements
- Independent contractor disputes
- Training
- Workplace Harassment Prevention
- Diversity/EEO
- Managing Employee Performance
- FMLA, ADA
- OSHA