Labor & Employment

Gordon Arata represents national, regional, and local employers in federal and state courts in a full spectrum of federal and state employment claims and issues. Our lawyers have extensive experience with 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), and all other federal and state laws affecting the employment relationship.

We provide services related to all areas of the terms and conditions of employment including  Employment Agreements, Non-Disclosure, Non-solicitation and Non-Competition Agreements and similar employment matters. Our labor and employment lawyers also offer counseling on drug testing, violence in the workplace, and privacy issues. We have represented both employees and employers in high-stakes litigation involving allegations of trade secret theft, unfair competition, computer fraud and abuse, non-competition agreements, and breaches of fiduciary duties.

In addition to preparing and providing advice and counsel as human resource business partners, we draft, revise and implement human resources strategies, advise employers on how to anticipate issues in the workplace, draft employment policies and manuals that are both legally compliant and practical workplace operations and address employment issues related to employee leaves, wage and hour compliance and a range of employee issues that arise everyday. Our lawyers also provide employment training and education on a variety of labor and employment-related topics.

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

• Harassment, Discrimination, and Retaliation related to age, race, sex, sexual orientation, sexual identification, national origin, disability, religion, or other legally protected class
• Wrongful termination
• ADA
• FMLA
• OSHA investigations
• Federal Railroad Administration investigation
• Investigations before the Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division
• Invasion of privacy
• Individual and collective FLSA wage and hour claims, as well as misclassification claims
• Slander, defamation and other employee related tort claims
• Arbitration and mediation