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We represent private and public sector employers in all aspects of the employer/employee relationship, from pre-hire to post-termination.
Our goal is to provide sound, practical and proactive legal advice as a means to assist our clients in avoiding litigation and other adversarial proceedings. We believe in starting before the employment relationship begins by performing such services as drafting and reviewing application forms, ensuring best practice hiring and selection procedures, drafting offer letters and employment contracts, and providing drug and alcohol testing policies. We also assist our clients in drafting and reviewing employee handbooks, policies on harassment, discrimination, and the Family and Medical Leave Act, performance improvement plans, disciplinary procedures, and non-compete, non-solicitation, confidentiality, trade secrets, and arbitration agreements. We regularly provide advice and consultation on wage and hour issues, employee discipline, accommodation issues, compliance with non-discrimination statutes and how to perform investigations of employee complaints. We are available to provide training sessions on all or any of the above topics. For post-termination matters, we prepare separation agreements and releases, and counsel employers on individual terminations, severance pay, reductions in force, early retirement plans, plant closings, and all related statutory obligations. An important component of our employment work is providing aggressive and effective advocacy on behalf of our clients. Through the years we have responded to hundreds of administrative claims filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), state civil rights agencies, and federal and state departments of labor. We provide representation to clients in administrative hearings before these agencies and our litigation practice covers federal and state trial and appellate courts. We handle a wide variety of claims including, but not limited to, wage and hour matters, discrimination issues, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), retaliatory discharge, whistleblower defense, and breach of non-compete and confidentiality agreements. We encourage the use of, and have successfully utilized facilitative mediation and arbitration to minimize the time and expense related to resolving employment disputes. Finally, we provide counsel and advocacy to both private and public sector employers in union representation cases (hearings, elections and campaigns), collective bargaining, administration of collective bargaining agreements, unfair labor practice charges, grievance arbitration (discipline/discharge and contract interpretation), and strikes, picketing and injunctions. On behalf of our clients, we have appeared before the National Labor Relations Board, Michigan Employment Relations Commission and other state agencies. In addition, we have extensive experience in representing governmental units in Act 312 proceedings involving police and fire personnel. Services includeEmployment/Human ResourcesLabor & Union Negotiation Workers' Compensation & Social Security Disability Immigration |
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