Labor & Employment

About

Provided by Ballard Spahr LLP

We represent employers in their dealings with unions and unionized workforces, including in the heavily unionized health care, manufacturing, transportation and public employer sectors. We have been involved in numerous union organizing matters, including corporate campaigns, and many complex and high stakes labor negotiations with corresponding unfair labor practice charges and threatened job actions. We regularly appear before the National Labor Relations Board, and similar state boards, in representation and unfair labor practice cases, and assist employers with collective bargaining, grievance management, and arbitrations.

Our training and counsel are critical to preventing and prevailing in eventual litigation. Should a workplace issue turn into a dispute, we do what employers need most: listen, investigate, analyze, and evaluate potential business impact to devise the strategy for the best outcome. We represent employers in the health care, retail, manufacturing, and communications industries as well as state and local governments in class and collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and related state laws. These high-stakes actions stem from issues including employee misclassification, off-the-clock compensation, timeliness of overtime payments and challenges to mandatory arbitration programs and class action waivers. We also pursue innovative areas of growth including diversity, equity, and inclusion, accessibility, and workplace investigations.