Employment Law Attorney Serving the State of Connecticut
Employment law is essential for your business because it helps to maintain a stable workforce, prevents legal issues, and ensures that your organization is adhering to state and federal regulations. Effective employment law not only helps to promote productivity, but it also protects your company’s reputation. At Pilicy & Ryan, PC, our employment law attorney offers proactive employment representation, counseling, and advice to employers in the private and public sectors.
Our comprehensive employment law services include:
- Audit services to ensure compliance with the various requirements of federal and state employment laws and regulations
- Employment policies, practices, and handbooks
- Development, preparation, and review of all employment-related policies and personnel documents and forms to ensure compliance and best practices
- Employee personnel files and medical files
- Leaves of absence and disability accommodations
- Employee benefits
- Attendance, tardiness, discipline, performance-improvement plans, drug testing, internal investigations, and drugs and alcohol
- Hiring, performance management, termination, and employment-related decisions
- Overall advice, counseling, review, and development of best practices
- Job applications, hiring and interview processes, and offer letters
- Background checks
- Promotions, demotions, and performance evaluations
- Employee discipline policies, practices, and documentation
- “At-will” employment, wrongful discharge, employment related “torts”
- Reductions in force, mergers, and acquisitions
- Discrimination and harassment
- Wage and hour
- Occupational health and safety
- Independent contractors
- Affirmative action compliance and plans
- Employment-related contracts
- Individual employment contracts
- Severance and separation agreements
- Executive employment and severance agreements
- Compensation agreements
- Trade secret protection and unfair competition
- Non-compete, non-disclosure, non-solicitation, and confidentiality agreements
- Workplace investigations
- Harassment, discrimination, and hostile work environment
- Work accidents, drug or alcohol use, and reasonable suspicion
- Conduct on-site and/or off-site investigation and interviews of relevant persons and witnesses for investigations
- Prepare report with findings and any recommendations
- Provide legal advice, counsel, and guidance for in-house investigations
- Development and review of forms and documents to be used by management and supervisors when conducting investigations
- Trainings and in-services including State of Connecticut mandated trainings
- Management and supervisor training
- Discipline and performance management
- Handling of complaints and conducting investigations
- Drug testing, accidents and injuries
- Sexual harassment
- All employee training
- Sexual harassment
- For all employers and boards of directors
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Board governance
- Fiduciary duties
- Defense of employment discrimination, harassment, and other employment-based claims in both federal and state courts and administrative agencies
- Employment discrimination, hostile work environment, harassment, wrongful termination, whistleblower and retaliation, wage and hour, occupational safety and health, and leave/reasonable accommodation claims, etc.
- Represent clients before State of Connecticut courts, federal district courts, and various administrative agencies including but not limited to the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (CHRO), Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC), Federal and State Department of Labor (DOL and CTDOL, respectively), and various divisions including but not limited to Wage and Hour, Unemployment, CONN-OSHA, etc., and (with respect to retaliation claims only) the Workers’ Compensation Commission
Labor Law
Our labor attorney will provide strategic, efficient, and intelligent representation of management in all aspects of labor relations, including:
- Serving as the chief negotiator or participating in collective bargaining contract negotiations;
- Assisting management in developing a strategy for contract negotiations and for long-term labor relations management by analyzing collective bargaining agreements, grievance settlements, arbitration awards, and current decisions and trends;
- Assisting employers with contract administration and interpretation;
- Representing public sector employers’ interest in arbitration proceedings;
- Advising and counseling employers in all stages of grievance processing and arbitration proceedings before various dispute resolution agencies;
- Conducting training programs for supervisors and management to improve knowledge of the collective bargaining agreement and applicable laws to improve contract administration;
- Representing employers before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the American Arbitration Association (AAA), State Board of Labor Relations (SBLR), and the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration (SBMA), as applicable;
- Providing on-site guidance, advice, and supervisor training during periods of union organizing;
- And representing employers and providing guidance and advice as to authorization, decertification, and unit clarification issues.
Our goal as your employment law attorney is to ensure the smooth operation of your business. Call our legal office today for labor law services.
Contact Pilicy & Ryan, PC Today for Assistance With Employment Law Matters
Pilicy & Ryan, PC is the law firm you can trust to provide you with comprehensive legal services in employment law matters. For trusted labor law services statewide, please contact our office by phone or by completing the form on this page, and we will contact you as soon as possible.
Pilicy & Ryan, PC
235 Main Street
Watertown, CT 06795
Phone: 860-274-0018
Fax: 860-274-0061
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