In this section:
Prince Lobel’s Employment Law Group attorneys have experience handling a wide range of matters in each of the four, key pillars of employment law:
Compliance
- Design and implement scalable policies and procedures to ensure both Massachusetts and multi-state employers are in compliance with an ever-widening range of federal, state and local laws, such as family and medical leave; earned paid sick leave; pay transparency; pay equity; anti-discrimination; workplace safety and health; background checks; reduction in force; and wage payment.
- Design and implement incentive compensation programs, such as commission plans and bonus plans.
- As Department of Labor Certified OSHA trainers, conduct onsite safety inspections compliance audits and training.
- Provide training on various employment topics, both companywide (such as anti-discrimination and harassment training) and targeted (such as Employment Law 101 for Managers).
Counseling
- Guide employers through sensitive and critical decisions, such as performance management, leave of absence management, reasonable accommodation requests, and employee discipline and termination.
- Assist employers with investigations or audits by state, federal and other regulatory agencies.
- Conduct internal workplace investigations.
Transactions
- Draft and negotiate all forms of employment-related agreements, such as offer letters, executive employment agreements, severance agreements and plans, change in control agreements and equity agreements.
- Draft and negotiate restrictive covenant agreements for both Massachusetts and multi-state employers, such as confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-competition, non-solicitation and non-raiding covenants.
- Draft and negotiate commercial agreements with employment-related third parties, such as consultants, independent contractors, HR service providers, benefit administrators and staffing and recruiting agencies.
- Provide employment due diligence support for mergers and acquisitions.
Litigation
- Defend employers in state and federal court against every type of employment claim, including wage and hour violations; discrimination and harassment; whistleblowing and retaliation; leave interference; invasion of privacy; breach of contract and employment torts.
- Prosecute and defend claims for breach of non-compete, non-solicitation and other restrictive covenants, misappropriation of trade secrets and other confidential business information, and related torts.
- Defend employers in administrative actions before federal and state agencies, including the Department of Labor, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, and the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office.
- Defend employers before the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission with respect to OSHA investigations and citations, from routine compliance inspections to matters involving fatality.
- Prince Lobel’s employment attorneys are admitted to practice in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island, and have experience as prosecutors and in-house counsel.