Bullivant Houser Bailey PC's Employment Law team consists of experienced attorneys in four states providing litigation and counseling services to public and private employers across the region and the nation. Our Employment Team consistently provides clients with the strategic counsel necessary to remain productive, avoid litigation and to successfully defend when it occurs.

A Preventive Approach to Employment Law
Federal and state regulations continue to alter the Employment landscape; we work closely with our clients to respond with a preventive approach. We help HR personnel, supervisors and business owners establish best practices to help ensure compliance with continually evolving employment laws, as well as avoid lawsuits.

A Team for All Sizes of Employers
Bullivant Houser Bailey PC's Employment Law team assists employers of all sizes in all industries with employment matters. Our services include compliance consulting, training and litigation.

Employment Litigation, Dispute Resolution, Arbitration
Bullivant lawyers provide extensive counseling and advice with a goal of reducing unnecessary litigation. Still, litigation is a fact of life in business; our attorneys have a successful track record of resolving cases for reasonable value as well as trial defense verdicts. We believe it is our responsibility to function as a trusted advisor, providing clients with responsive service and keeping everyone fully informed through each stage of litigation.

Employment Law Compliance Services
We work directly with HR Managers and business owners on a wide variety of services aimed at ensuring compliance with current laws and regulations including layoffs, RIF programs, early retirement incentives, and other creative responses to the economic crisis. Our employment law advice services seek to help prevent litigation while placing an employer in the best possible strategic position if litigation occurs.

Employee handbooks, manuals and policies. Bullivant lawyers can help draft, review and update HR policies and procedures to ensure legal compliance.

Supervisor, manager and employee training. Our lawyers are available to provide legally mandated training on sexual harassment and other important topics to all employees, including advanced training for supervisors and managers.

Employment practices audits. We review all employment practices to ensure compliance and to recommend "best practices."

HR Counseling & Advice:

• Acquisition or sale of businesses
• ADA – Americans with Disabilities Act
• ADEA – Age Discrimination in Employment Act
• Best practices for avoiding claims of sexual harassment, discrimination, wrongful discharge, and retaliation including Anti-Harassment Training
• Deferred compensation arrangements (including 409A plans)
• EEO – Equal Employment Opportunity
• ERISA welfare & benefit plans, and COBRA continuation benefits
• Executive employment agreements
• FLSA – Fair Labor Standards Act
• FMLA – Family Medical Leave Act & state leave laws
• Hiring practices
• HR recordkeeping
• Independent contractor agreements
• Labor union negotiations, labor law compliance, union grievances and arbitration
• Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
• Managing difficult employees and handling terminations
• Non-compete agreements, non-solicitation and confidentiality issues
• OSHA – Occupational Safety and Health Act & state safety and health laws
• OWBPA – Older Worker Benefit Protection Act
• Performance reviews
• Preventing workplace violence
• Reductions in force
• Severance agreements and separation pay plans
• Stock option and equity plans and agreements
• Wage and hour laws
• Workplace investigations due to sexual harassment, discrimination, wrongful discharge, retaliation or other claims