The workplace is continuously evolving – and employers need the right guidance and policies to keep up with the changing landscape. We proactively manage our clients’ risk while ensuring they stay in compliance and create a positive work environment that meets all their business needs.

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin’s Labor and Employment Practice guides clients through employment relationships and helps protect clients’ workforces as the law changes. We understand that a productive work environment is critical to a company’s operations, and we work with our clients to create effective workplace standards that comply with federal, state, and local laws.

The team counsels clients on all aspects of employment law, from prevention and compliance to dispute resolution. We focus on risk management and compliance, employment litigation, labor and management relations, restrictive covenant and business disputes, wage and hour issues, Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and other employee benefit matters.

Leveraging our deep familiarity with employee benefits, laws relating to workplace harassment and discrimination, employee leave rights, employee mobility wage and hour, and labor unions, we distill issues to a granular level, enabling our clients to make informed decisions about their business.

Our team is comprised of accomplished litigators who handle:

Employment

• Onboarding
• Contracts (including executive compensation and benefits)
• Policies and procedures
• Compliance
• Strategic counseling on day-to-day issues
• Severance and separation agreements
• Investigations
• Litigation avoidance techniques 
• Litigation
• Defense of harassment, discrimination, and related workplace issues (also including public accommodations and housing discrimination)

Wage and Hour

• Compliance and counseling
• Policies and practices
• Audits and investigations
• Litigation (defense)
• Special experience with home healthcare companies, public works, and prevailing wage matters

Restrictive Covenants and Employee-Related Business Disputes

• Drafting
• Counseling
• Litigation of restrictive covenant, unfair competition, confidentiality matters, and trade secretes

Labor

• Union issues, including union organizing and elections 
• Management counseling on unionized workforces 
• Negotiating collective bargaining agreements
• Resolution of workplace grievances and NLRB proceedings
• Strikes, lockouts, and picketing

ERISA, Benefits & Compensation

• Executive compensation
• Multiemployer benefit plans
• Withdrawal liability
• 409A tax issues