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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, Chief Legal Officer, The Cava Group, Inc.

Sarah Johnson, Director of Employment Counsel, Nordstrom Inc.

Jennifer Lankford, Senior Corporate Counsel, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc.

Cherise Latortue, Associate General Counsel, Flynn Restaurant Group

Kim Metrick, Vice President, Employment Law, Legal Operations and Investigations, Walgreen Co. 

Jane M. Stahl, General Counsel, Shaw Industries Group, Inc.

 

  • News
2021: A Whirlwind Year for Labor & Employment Law
January 19, 2022 // Member Publications
UPDATE: Hot-Off the (Electronic) Press! DOL Issues New E-Disclosure Rules
May 22, 2020 // Member Publications
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
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 //
Kochhar & Co. provides an update on India employment law
July 13, 2015 //
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 //
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
Joel R. Hlavaty
Joel R. Hlavaty
Frantz Ward LLP
Cleveland, Ohio
(216) 515-1614
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Program Chair & Vice Chair
Courtney Nichols
Courtney Nichols
Plunkett Cooney - Detroit
Detroit, Michigan
(248) 594-6360
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Marketing Chair
Tim Peeples
Tim Peeples
Daniel Coker - Oxford
Oxford, Mississippi
(662) 232-8979
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Chair Emeritus
Tamara K. Nelson
Tamara K. Nelson
Merrick, Hofstedt & Lindsey, P.S.
Seattle, Washington
(206) 682-0610
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Feb 2 2022
2022 Labor & Employment Practice Group Seminar
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