EMPLOYER REPRESENTATION PRACTICE INCLUDES …

• Basic advice on legal issues that affect most businesses, including hiring and firing, severance, Texas Payday Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, Family Medical Leave Act, Title VII discrimination and harassment, NLRB disputes (picketing, hand billing and boycotts), confidentiality, non-compete agreements, OSHA issues, worker’s compensation subscribers/nonsubscribers, co-employer and staff leasing issues;
• Defense of EEOC Charges and Wage and Hour Audits;
• Preparing such business and employment contracts as employment and independent contractor agreements, personnel policies and procedures manuals and severance agreements;
• Assisting with hiring and firing and preparing appropriate documents to protect the employer in connection with such matters;
• Prosecuting and defending lawsuits by or against former employees, or brought by or against third parties, involving breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, violation of confidentiality or non-compete agreements, allegations of tortious interference with customer or employee relations, harassment defense, discrimination defense, requests for TROs and injunctive relief, and workplace injury defense;
• Training with regard to proper employment practices;
• Preparing and litigating non-compete agreements involving numerous types of business, including insurance agencies, travel agencies, building and floor maintenance companies, medical professionals (multi-specialty medical clinics, physicians, nurse practitioners and other nurses), record archive companies, headhunting firms, exterminators;
• Preparing and litigating Title VII, ADEA, ADA, and TCHRA discrimination and harassment issues;
• Management defense in Union arbitration pursuant to collective bargaining agreements.