PRACTICES
PRACTICES

Employment

Gordon Arata Montgomery Barnett counsels employers and represents them in disputes on a broad range of employment and labor issues arising under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Title VII, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and other federal and state laws affecting the employment relationship.

We provide advice to clients on Employment Agreements, Non-Disclosure and Non-Competition Agreements and similar employment matters.  Our employment lawyers also offer counseling on drug testing, violence in the workplace and privacy issues.  In addition to preparing employment policies and manuals, our lawyers also provide employment training and education on a variety of employment-related topics.

Our employment and labor lawyers have successfully handled litigation and administrative agency actions in the following areas:

  • Age discrimination
  • Race discrimination
  • Sex discrimination
  • National origin discrimination
  • Religious discrimination
  • Sexual harassment
  • Retaliatory discharge
  • Wrongful termination
  • ERISA
  • ADA
  • FMLA
  • OSHA investigation
  • Federal Railroad Administration investigation
  • Investigation by the Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division
  • Invasion of privacy
  • FLSA wage/misclassification claims
  • Slander/defamation
  • Unfair labor practice charges
  • Arbitration
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