• Advising on day-to-day discrimination issues including harassment and retaliation and all New York workplace laws
  
  
• Counseling on all federal workplace laws such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Older Workers' Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA), and the Worker Adjustment Retraining and Notification Act (WARN)
  
  
• Ensuring wage and hour compliance (conducting internal worker classification audits, updating job descriptions, review of payroll and overtime practices, monitoring and advising on legal updates and workplace posting requirements)
  
  
• Designing diversity & EEO compliance practices
  
  
• Planning and implementing reductions in force
  
  
• Advising on the complex legal interplay of leaves of absence
  
  
• Handling contingent workforce issues
  
  
• Addressing workplace accommodation for religion and disability
  
  
• Advising on violence prevention and security concerns
  
  
• Structuring the hiring process to mitigate risk (employment applications, interview protocols, onboarding)
  
  
• Providing risk assessment of employment decisions (hiring, termination, discipline)
  
  
• Assisting in managing government workplace audits
  
  
• Establishing effective use of background checks
  

The firm drafts, review and negotiates employment contracts, non-competition, non-solicitation and non-disclosure agreements, separation agreements and settlement agreements. The firm also drafts and provides legal review for employee handbooks, standard operating procedures and employment policies.




The firm represents companies in pre-litigation phases of discrimination disputes, including responding to charges of discrimination at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the New York State Division of Human Rights.