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. 

Falling trade barriers, enhanced 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 critical blend of experience and local knowledge to help your company almost everywhere it does business. We 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
• Internal resolution of disputes, whenever and wherever they arise

Many of our attorneys have a strong background in litigation. However, they are equally skilled at alternative dispute resolution methods, including mediation, arbitration, administrative proceedings, and creative resolutions. This experience is complemented by in-depth knowledge of a broad range of legal issues.

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.