Lashly & Baer, P.C. represents closely-held businesses, publicly-held companies, financial institutions, governmental agencies, nonprofit organizations, professionals, and other individuals in developing and implementing labor relations/human resources management processes to ensure compliance with federal and state employment laws, including 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"), the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), Executive Order 11246, the Consolidated Ominbus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), state workers' compensation laws and other state and federal laws and regulations.

In developing and implementing compliance processes, we partner with our clients in all aspects of human resources/labor relations management from designing handbooks, policies and programs, to developing hiring and outreach programs, to training, to drafting employment agreements, to disciplinary investigations, to counseling on performance, to high-level management issues, and to terminating the employment relationship.

We regularly provide clients with day-to-day advice on legal issues involving drug and alcohol testing, acceptable use policies, monitoring employee communications, employment agreements, trade secret agreements, confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, wage and hour compliance, equal employment opportunity, affirmative action plans, diversity, reductions in force and WARN Act compliance, HIPPA, and anti-harassment training.

Also see Business Law.

We regularly address the following legal issues for our clients:

  • Americans with Disabilities Act

  • Collective bargaining

  • Compliance with federal and state employment laws

  • Contracts for related services

  • 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-at-will

  • Employment breach of contract

  • 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 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

  • Reporting acts of violence

  • Review and preparation of employee handbooks

  • Separation and Release agreements

  • Sexual harassment

  • Taxation issues

  • Tenured or contractual employees

  • Wage and hour investigations