Human Resources / Employment

Lashly & Baer develops and implements labor relations/human resources management processes to ensure compliance with federal and state employment laws. This includes the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA). In addition, we have extensive legal experience with Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), as well as state workers' compensation laws.

Our client base includes closely-held businesses, publicly-held companies, financial institutions, governmental agencies and nonprofit organizations. In developing and implementing compliance processes, we partner with our clients in all aspects of human resources/labor relations management. This can cover everything from designing handbooks, policies and programs to developing hiring and outreach programs.

Lashly & Baer has extensive knowledge of drafting employment agreements, disciplinary investigations, counseling on performance and terminating the employment relationship. Plus, we have extensive experience on matters such as drug and alcohol testing, monitoring employee communications, trade secret agreements, non-disclosure agreements, wage and hour compliance, reductions in force, Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification Act (WARN) compliance, HIPAA and much more.

Related practice areas:

• General Business Law

We regularly handle the following legal issues for our clients:

• Americans with Disabilities Act
• Collective bargaining
• Compliance with federal and state employment laws
• Corporate governance issues
• Criminal background checks
• Development of policies and procedures for reductions-in-force, drug testing and polygraph testing, and development of affirmative action plans
• Discipline and termination
• Discipline hearings
• Drug testing
• Employee conflicts of interest
• Employee manual
• Employee participation in political activities
• Employees with AIDS and other illnesses
• Employer liability
• Employer rights
• Employment, independent contractor and consulting agreements
• Employment contracts
• Employment discrimination
• Employment litigation
• Employment mediation
• Employment termination
• Employment-related training and counseling
• Fair Labor Standards Act
• Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
• Fiduciary Responsibility
• Harassment claims by employees
• Hiring, discipline, and dismissal of tenured or contractual employees
• Internal company investigations
• Labor relations
• Personnel policies
• Prevailing wage litigation
• Public sector collective bargaining
• Public sector employment law
• Review and preparation of employee handbooks
• Separation and Release agreements
• Sexual harassment
• Taxation issues
• Tenured or contractual employees
• Wage and hour investigations