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Labor & Employment

Today’s diverse, mobile workforce is creating unprecedented challenges and opportunities for business leaders around the world. ALFA International’s global network of law firms and attorneys provides knowledgeable, effective labor and employment counsel, locally and internationally. 

Enhanced and ever changing technology, more international cooperation, and a mobile workforce have combined to create a global marketplace. But these new opportunities also bring companies new challenges—particularly when it comes to human resources.

With lawyers in member law firms across the globe, ALFA International’s Labor and Employment Practice Group has cultivated a varied and diverse blend of experience and local knowledge to help your company almost everywhere it does business. Our lawyers provide highly skilled, cost-effective, and coordinated legal services to businesses with multistate and multinational workforces. 

Our attorneys can assist your business at every step in the employee-employer relationship, including: 

  • Developing proactive labor and employment practices and policies
  • Negotiating agreements with organized labor and employee groups
  • Ensuring compliance with established and emerging labor and employment laws
  • Representing employers before administrative and regulatory agencies

While many of our attorneys have a strong background in litigation, they are also equally skilled at alternative dispute resolution methods, including mediation, arbitration, and other creative pre-litigation resolutions.

Areas of focus

  • Labor negotiations, collective bargaining, and union organizing
  • Hiring, discipline, and terminations
  • Compensation and benefits
  • Discrimination, harassment, and retaliation
  • Employment contracts
  • Non-competes, trade secrets, and non-disclosure agreements
  • Wage and hour
  • ERISA and pensions
  • OSHA
  • Immigration
  • Privacy, social media, and other workplace policies

Labor & Employment Client Advisory Board

The ALFA International Labor & Employment Practice Group is grateful to have the the following clients contribute to our on-going success by participating in our Client Advisory Board:

Rob Bertram, General Counsel, Ollie's Bargain Outlet

Todd Fulks,
Associate General Counsel, Clayton Homes

Sarah Johnson, Director of Employment Counsel, Nordstrom Inc.

Donna L. Roberts, Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc.

Raquel Rochelle, Senior Attorney, TransUnion

Jane M. Stahl, Deputy Chief Counsel, Shaw Industries Group, Inc.

  • Webinars
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03/21/2018
What's An Employer to Do in the World of #MeToo Harassment?

04/19/2017
Mapping a Route About Potential Storms - What to Consider from an Employment Perspective Before Starting Business in Europe

01/12/2017
Class Action Waivers in Arbitration Agreements - Are they Still Viable?

09/15/2016
Government Contracting- Navigating the Employment Minefield

06/07/2016
Exempt Today - Gone Tomorrow. What Every Employer Needs to Know about Compliance with the New Overtime Rules

02/17/16
Transgender Issues and the Law: Title VII, Title IX, and Equal Protection

11/04/14

Tripartite Relationships – Who’s the Client Anyway? Litigating and Negotiating Settlements in Claims with Covered and Uncovered Losses

10/07/14
Counting Heads: The New Affirmative Action Plan Requirements Webinar

06/04/14
Pre-Employment Screening and Behavior Forecasting: Risk Avoidance or Exposure to New Risk?

07/24/2012
The Supreme Court Speaks: What the PPACA Opinion Means for Business

06/05/2012
The NLRB and Labor Law: What All Employers Need to Know Now

02/17/2010
H1N1: Employer Medical and Legal Strategies for Managing Contagious Disease Outbreaks

07/22/2009
The First Hundred Days: How Newly Enacted and Proposed Legislation Impacts Employers

Up In Smoke: An Overview of Medical and Recreational Marijuana Issues in the Workplace
July 17, 2019 // Member Publications
Substances in the Workplace
June 12, 2019 // ALFA International Publications
Employers Facing Age Discrimination Class Actions
June 12, 2019 // ALFA International Publications
Best Practices for Multistate Employers to Protect Their Confidential Information
June 12, 2019 // ALFA International Publications
Employment Class and Representative PAGA Actions in California
June 12, 2019 // ALFA International Publications
Service and Comfort Animals in the Workplace
June 12, 2019 // ALFA International Publications
Preparing for Emerging Technologies
June 12, 2019 // ALFA International Publications
Times of Transition in Employment
June 12, 2019 // ALFA International Publications
Share Deal vs. Asset Deal - What to Consider from an Employment/HR and Commercial/Business Perspective
June 12, 2019 // ALFA International Publications
Over Yonder: A National Perspective to Sick and Safe Leave
June 12, 2019 // ALFA International Publications
How to Deal Proactively with Title VII Claims
June 12, 2019 // ALFA International Publications
Replacing the Good Ol’ Boy Work Environment
June 12, 2019 // ALFA International Publications
Roanoke Lawyer to Head International Labor Law Group
August 19, 2015 // ALFA International News, Member News
Mike Murphy of Carter, Conboy, Case, Blackmore, Maloney & Laird and Sarah Lamar of Hunter, MacLean, Exley & Dunn provide updates on the National Labor Relations Board's status of rulemaking and litigation and how employers can protect themselves.
July 21, 2015 // ALFA International Publications
How competent counsel and a diligent employer can navigate retaliation claims successfully from S. Henry of McNees Wallace & Nurick, W. Hughes of Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C.; K. Hull of McNees Wallace & Nurick; and C. Aspy of Naman, Howell, Smith & Lee.
July 21, 2015 // ALFA International Publications
Learn about recent developments regarding the Pregnancy Discrimination Act and how these changes impact employers’ duties toward pregnant employees from Brent Bean of Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP and Lindsey Hazelton of Hancock Estabrook.
July 21, 2015 // ALFA International Publications
Employee conduct both at and away from work impacts the workplace and Kim Moore of Strasburger & Price and Kathleen Peahl of Wadleigh, Starr & Peters advise employers on how to respond.
July 21, 2015 // ALFA International Publications
Joel Hlavaty of Frantz Ward and Jane Kim of Wright, Lindsey & Jennings LLP provide updates on recent decisions on technology in the workplace, along with their impact on employers.
July 21, 2015 // ALFA International Publications
Jim Peterson of Higgs Fletcher & Mack and Ron Polly of Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young advises employers on wage and hour class and collective actions.
July 21, 2015 // ALFA International Publications
The means and methods of successful EEOC conciliation discussed by Joe Spitzzeri of Johnson & Bell and Theresa Smith Lloyd of Plunkett Cooney.
July 21, 2015 // ALFA International Publications
Bufete B. Buigas discusses employers using technology for control in the workplace
July 13, 2015 // Member News
Kochhar & Co. provides an update on India employment law
July 13, 2015 // Member News
James Peterson of Higgs, Fletcher & Mack and Eva Knipschild of Kennedy Van der Laan give advice on protecting the important company information that doesn’t necessarily fall under intellectual property laws.
April 06, 2015 // ALFA International Publications
Colleen Lewis of Dinsmore & Shohl and Schaun Henry of McNees Wallace & Nurick answer some of the unique questions that go along with employee whistleblower claims.
April 06, 2015 // ALFA International Publications
Deborah Kelly of Dickstein Shapiro and Jane Brown of Paine Hamblen provide insight on how to deal with difficult employment law scenarios.
April 06, 2015 // ALFA International Publications
Some practical advice on handling trends in the ever changing workplace is offered by Joel Hlavaty of Frantz Ward and Lisa Krupicka of Burch, Porter & Johnson.
April 06, 2015 // ALFA International Publications
Schaun Henry of McNees Wallace & Nurick writes about Criminal Conduct and Corporate Liability in The Legal Intelligencer
September 17, 2014 // Member News
2014 ALFA International - Labor & Employment Directory
June 11, 2014 // ALFA International Publications
2013 Labor & Employment Seminar White Paper
December 12, 2013 // ALFA International Publications
Labor & Employment Update Summer 2011
May 31, 2012 // ALFA International Publications
2012 Labor & Employment Law Pictorial Directory
March 01, 2012 // ALFA International Publications
Labor & Employment Update: Summer 2009
July 16, 2009 // ALFA International Publications
2008-2009 ALFA International Directory of Labor & Employment Member Firms
June 01, 2008 // ALFA International Publications
Labor & Employment Update: Summer 2007
August 30, 2007 // ALFA International Publications

Contacts

Practice Group Chair
Tamara K. Nelson
Tamara K. Nelson
Merrick, Hofstedt & Lindsey, P.S.
Seattle, Washington
(206) 682-0610
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Program Chair & Vice Chair
Joel R. Hlavaty
Joel R. Hlavaty
Frantz Ward LLP
Cleveland, Ohio
(216) 515-1614
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Marketing Chair
Courtney Nichols
Courtney Nichols
Plunkett Cooney - Detroit
Detroit, Michigan
(248) 594-6360
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Chair Emeritus
Yvette Davis
Yvette Davis
Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP
Los Angeles, California
(213) 542-8000
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Jun 17 2020
2020 EPL & Professional Liability Seminar

Past Events

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Sep 24 2019
2019 Labor & Employment Practice Group Regional Seminar - Pittsburgh
Jun 12 2019
2019 Labor & Employment Practice Group Seminar
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