Labor & Employment Law Attorneys

Labor law refers to the legal relationship between employers, employees, and trade, labor, or professional organizations, associations or unions. Labor law includes the laws and methods of:

• Collective bargaining for wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of the workers’ employment;
• Enforcing the collective bargaining agreement through administrative grievances, arbitration, and in California and federal courts;
• Seeking redress for illegal conduct by the employer or the union through prosecution or defense of unfair labor practice charges before the National Labor Relations Board or the Public Employment Relations Board;
• Organizing and holding representation, decertification, severance, and other elections relating to union status and governance; and
• Representation and defense of individual union members who are under investigation or facing adverse employment actions.
• Defense of employees before civil service commissions, personnel boards, boards, councils, arbitrators, and administrative law judges.

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Employment law refers to the wide array of California and federal laws governing the rights and obligations of employers and employees in the workplace, regardless of whether the employees are organized into a union. Employment laws include:

• Wage, pay, overtime, and working hours provisions;
• Paid and unpaid leave provisions;
• Disability anti-discrimination and accommodations laws;
• Pension protection laws;
• Sex, race, religious, political, and other anti-harassment laws;
• Laws against workplace violence;
• Laws prohibiting illegal firings for reasons against public policy;
• Unemployment compensation;
• Non-disclosure, anti-solicitation, and non-compete agreements;
• Employment agreements;
• Severance pay;
• Layoffs, reorganizations, and reductions in force;
• Independent contractor agreements;
• Trade secrets contracts;
• Privacy, autonomy, liberty interests of employees and employers; and
• Many other laws and administrative regulations.

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