Dilworth Paxson’s Labor & Employment Group represents our clients in a variety of matters including:
- Discrimination and retaliation based on race, age sex, sexual orientation, disability, and USERRA status
- Wage and hour and fair labor standards
- Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
- Americans with Disability Act (ADA)
- Trade secret protection and enforcement of non-competition, non-solicitation, and confidentiality provisions
- Employment agreements and separations including reduction-in-force matters
- Employee handbook and substance abuse policies
- Anti-harassment training
- Internal investigations and advise in government investigations
- Counseling to companies on human relations issues
- Collective bargaining contracts
- OSHA (United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration) catastrophe investigation
- New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD)
- Comprehensive Employee Protection Act (CEPA)
- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Equal Pay Act
- Pregnancy Discrimination Act
- Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)
- Older Workers Benefit Protection Act
- Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
- Uniformed Services Employment and Re-employment Rights Act (USERRA)
- New Jersey State Wage and Hour Law
- Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)
Our lawyers effectively assist their clients with understanding their ever-growing and changing obligations, and to strategize the most prudent plan of action to resolve conflicts. In addition to our technical experience, we approach matters with an unparalleled dedication to our clients by carefully listening to their concerns and fashioning a responsive, cost-effective solution. We always keep our clients' goals forefront in mind when negotiating the best resolutions possible.
Our Labor & Employment Group provides a wide range of service to our clientele such as consulting, compliance, litigation, training, handbooks draft and creation, investigations, and agreement preparation and negotiations. Our group tries too avoid costly litigation for our clients by exhausting all possible remedies, however, once in the courtroom we aggressively represent our clients’ best interest. Our employment lawyers routinely appear in courts and government agencies across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and other jurisdictions.
Representative Experience
- Represent major government agencies and private corporations and their upper management in all types of discrimination and retaliation cases.
- Represent region and national corporations requiring guidance with employee handbooks, employment or independent contractor agreements, employment applications, and separation and termination issues.
- Represented a corporate client against a former employee’s charge of discrimination based on alleged violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
- Represented both regional and national public companies ensuring compliance with the WARN Act.
- Represented management with respect to negotiating severance agreements for high level executives.
- Prepared injunction papers in response to a union threat to strike at local hospitals.
- Drafted personnel policies and procedures for U.S. branch of an international technology company.
- Represent corporate companies with respect to negotiating severance agreements.
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