Alka Ramchandani-Raj

AI and Technology; Hiring, Performance Management and Termination; Occupational Safety and Health; Whistleblowing, Compliance and Investigations; Workplace Policy Institute; Workplace Violence Prevention and Crisis Response

As an experienced employment lawyer with a concentration in Federal and State Occupational Safety and Health law, Alka Ramchandani-Raj assists employers with a wide range of complex situations with the workforce. She has extensive experience handling communicable disease inquiries for clients and she assisted with developing and leading Littler’s COVID-19 task force including developing the strategy behind responding to inquiries and developing products for clients including safety and health and employment policies, return to work plans and programs for compliance.

Focusing on workplace safety and health, Ramchandani-Raj assists employers with pre-injury/illness preventative practices, including site inspections and policy development. She also assists employers who have experienced workplace injuries and accidents or are subject to a Federal or state OSHA inspection. Ramchandani-Raj has experience managing catastrophic workplace accidents or fatalities. She is an experienced litigator and regularly represents employers in Occupational Safety and Health appeals, settlement conferences, and hearings. She also has broad experience assisting employers with workplace violence issues including obtaining temporary and permanent restraining orders to ensure the workplace is safe for employees. She also regularly attends advisory committee meetings as part of Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute and submits comments to proposed regulations. She is a core member of the firm’s Occupational Safety and Health and Workplace Violence practice groups, and a leading member of Littler’s OSHA Woman’s Group.

Ramchandani-Raj also has extensive experience with general employment advice and counsel and litigation matters relating to terminations, retaliation, whistleblowers complaints, discrimination, harassment, ADA accessibility and state agency complaint defense.

Ramchandani-Raj is co-chair of the Workplace Safety & Health (OSHA/MSHA) Practice Group. She is also a member of the firm’s Robotic, Artificial Intelligence and Automation practice group, which is focused on providing representation and compliance assistance to employers in the robotic industry and employers integrating automation, AI, telepresence and robotics into their workplace.

Labor and Employment Section, State Bar of California; Labor and Employment Section, OSHA Section, American Bar Association; Lecturer of Law, University of California, Berkeley Law, August 2011 - June 2016

John Marshall Law School

J.D.

University of California, Santa Barbara

Bachelors of Art