Hermes Sargent Bates’ Employment & Labor attorneys are called upon to understand each client’s unique concerns pertaining to its workplace and address them effectively and efficiently. If litigation proves necessary, we utilize our vast knowledge, experience and creativity in planning and executing aggressive, cost-effective strategies that will succeed in court, arbitration, or mediation. Our clients range in size from Fortune 500 companies to small start-up businesses, and include employers in transportation, healthcare, manufacturing, finance, technology, entertainment, publishing, distribution, food service, and not-for-profit.
Employment Litigation
We represent employers before federal and state judges, juries, arbitrators and administrative agencies throughout Texas and the Southwest in every type of employment litigation, including the following:
Employment discrimination (age, race, gender, sex, pregnancy, disability,
national origin, religion and workers’ compensation)
Sexual harassment
Family and Medical Leave Act
Employee Retirement Income Security Act
Fair Labor Standards Act
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act
Breach of contract, defamation and fraud
We also represent employers in prosecuting and defending attempts to obtain temporary restraining orders and injunctions to enforce confidentiality agreements and non-competition agreements.
Employment Practices Counseling
We regularly advise clients how to minimize legal risks in supervising, evaluating, investigating and terminating employees, implementing reductions in force, and creating and applying personnel policies, and drafting and enforcing separation agreements and non-competition agreements. We counsel management on how to achieve business goals while complying with federal, state, and local labor laws and regulations such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, wage and hour laws, and affirmative action obligations. We also provide practical management training on issues such as sexual harassment, documenting employee performance, and accommodating disabled workers.
Labor
We guide and represent employers in collective bargaining negotiations, union election campaigns,
arbitrations and strikes, and in proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board.
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