Daniel A Kaplan
USA Guide 2023
Band 2 : Labor & Employment
Band 2
About
Provided by Daniel A Kaplan
Experience
Daniel Kaplan is a partner and litigation attorney with Foley & Lardner LLP and is a recent past co-chair of the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice. Dan counsels employers in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including wage and hour, employment contracts, confidentiality and non-compete agreements, worker’s and unemployment compensation, family and medical leave, disability accommodations and compliance with the Americans with Disability Act, and all state, federal and local discrimination laws. Dan has experience litigating before various state and federal agencies, various state courts, and federal courts throughout the country, including the United States Supreme Court.
In addition, Dan works with employers on employee and supervisor training and traditional labor matters, such as union organizing, collective bargaining, grievance processes and arbitration. Dan also has extensive experience in defending and advising employers on safety and health-related matters under the Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA). Dan has defended employers in OSHA matters throughout the country, in front of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission and the federal courts, and in more than four dozen matters involving employee fatalities.
Dan also regularly counsels employers on affirmative action obligations under Executive Order 11246, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, affirmative action plans, AAP audits, and all matters involving the OFCCP. Dan has represented employers throughout the country on their AAP needs, including petitions to the OFCCP for functional plan development, defense of desk and on-site plan audits, and litigation directly with the OFCCP.
Dan’s wage and hour experience includes regularly representing national and international clients in federal and state courts, as well as the United States Supreme Court, on FLSA collective action claims and state wage and hour class actions claims.
Dan joined Foley in 1995 after practicing law for a large firm in Salt Lake City, Utah, for three and one-half years in the same areas.