Preventive Employment Services

Because we believe that careful planning and counseling can reduce the likelihood of a lawsuit or can at least improve the likelihood for success should litigation arise, we offer a variety of litigation avoidance-related services, such as preparing, reviewing and updating employment policies and handbooks, drafting Affirmative Action plans conducting audits to ensure businesses are compliant with all applicable state and federal laws and providing employee and management training on a variety of training topics, such as sexual harassment and anti-discrimination, discipline and documentation, the ADA and reasonable accommodations, wage and hour, leaves of absences, electronic issues in the workplace, independent contractor status, joint employment issues and maintaining a union-free environment.

Training Topics

• Techniques for Safely Hiring and Firing Employees
• Basic Course in Employment Law
• Supervisor Training - What Every Good Supervisor Needs to Know About Managing Employees
• Effective Employee Discipline and Documentation
• Conducting an Effective Investigation into Employee Misconduct
• Avoiding Sexual and Other Unlawful Harassment Claims
• Diversity Issues in the Workplace
• Record Retention, including requirements for storing and destroying records under the data breach statute
• Workplace issues related to computers, email, internet and other electronic communications
• Workplace Violence
• Wage and Hour Compliance
• Independent Contractors vs. Employees
• Joint Employment Issues
• The Americans with Disabilities Act
• Determining Reasonable Accommodations for Disabled Employees
• Employee Leaves of Absence
• Family and Medical Leave
• Small Necessities Leave
• Maternity Leave
• Military Leave
• Other types of paid and unpaid leaves
• Same-Sex Marriages and Employment Issues
• Employing Registered Sex Offenders in the Workplace
• Maintaining a Union-Free Environment
• Alcohol and Drugs in the Workplace

Other Services

• Employment Counseling – providing proactive advice to companies before making various employment decisions, such as initiating disciplinary action, granting leaves of absences, reducing their workforce/instituting layoffs or implementing policies
• Drafting, reviewing and updating personnel policies, employee handbooks and other written materials
• Conducting an Employment Practices Audit to ensure your practices and policies are compliant with applicable laws and are otherwise consistent.