Overview
A skilled advisor, negotiator, and advocate, attorney Erin Schaefer helps employers solve their labor-management relations workforce problems.
Drawing on nearly a decade of experience as a Field Attorney for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Erin assists clients in negotiating collective bargaining agreements, managing union organizing and other labor relations issues, and resolving labor disputes.
Employers rely on Erin to represent them in unfair labor practice proceedings, grievance and arbitration hearings, government investigations, and related litigation in state and federal courts.
Erin also counsels employers on compliance with the requirements of the National Labor Relations Act as it relates to other federal laws, including the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and federal, state, and local prevailing wage laws. She works with clients to identify potential legal problems and determine efficient responses to maintain compliant workplace practices.
Before joining Epstein Becker Green, Erin served for nine years as a Field Attorney with the NLRB at Region 29 in Brooklyn, New York. In that position, she investigated unfair labor charges and successfully litigated before the NLRB and administrative law judges, prosecuting labor violations against unions and employers. While attending law school, Erin served as a law clerk in the legal department of a large trade union, where she directly supported the union’s general counsel and staff attorneys in labor disputes. She then served as a clerk at the NLRB’s New York Division of Judges and as an intern with the NLRB at Region 29.
Erin is committed to diversity, enhancing the recruitment and development of LGBTQ+ attorneys and staff, and fostering a better understanding among all of the firm's employees of the unique issues facing the LGBTQ+ community. She serves as Co-Chair of Epstein Becker Green’s LGBTQ+ Outreach Group.
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Credentials
Education
- University of Pittsburgh School of Law (J.D., 2012)
- University of Pittsburgh (B.A., magna cum laude, 2009)
Bar Admissions
- New Jersey
- New York
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Events
Upcoming Events
Past Events
- Cardozo School of Law Sports Law Symposium: Major League, Back to the Minors: Exploring the World of Minor League SportsMarch 2015
Insights
Insights
- BlogsNLRB Opens New Front in Campaign Against Contractual Restrictive Covenants, Now Targeting No-Poach Provisions in a ...4 minute read
- BlogsNLRB Issues Complaint Alleging Business-to-Business No-Poaching Agreements Violate Employees’ Rights in Latest ...4 minute read
- BlogsWestern District of Texas Says NLRB Structure Unconstitutional, Issues Injunction Preventing SpaceX Unfair Labor ...3 minute read
- BlogsSupreme Court Rules NLRB 10(j) Injunctions Must Meet Higher Preliminary Injunction Standard in Blow to NLRB8 minute read
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Fifth Circuit Redresses NLRB’s Tesla Decision but the Board Remains Undaunted
6 minute read - BlogsPreemption Questions Continue as FTC and NLRB Fight Restrictive Covenants5 minute read
- BlogsNew York State Bans Workplace “Captive Audience” Meetings4 minute read
- BlogsAnswering a Major Question No One Asked: NLRB Issues Final Rule on Joint-Employer Status5 minute read
- BlogsNLRB Issues Final Rule on Joint-Employer Status, Answering a Major Question No One Asked5 minute read
- PublicationsAn “Overbroad” Noncompete: The National Labor Relations Board Has Found Its First Target2 minute read
- BlogsNLRB Issues Complaint Against Company for Maintenance and Enforcement of Noncompete and Non-Solicit Provisions3 minute read
- BlogsNLRB Delivers Labor Day Gifts to Unions9 minute read
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Insights into the NLRB’s Stericycle Decision and Its Implications for Employer Handbooks: Navigating Workplace Policy ...
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Employer Handbooks and Policies Will Face More Scrutiny Under Stericycle, Inc. - NLRB Reverses a Prior Reversal ...
5 minute read - PublicationsNovel NLRB Action Highlights Aggressive Noncompete Stance2 minute read
- BlogsBiden NLRB Reverts to Obama Era Independent Contractor Test: Test Previously Rejected by DC Circuit7 minute read
- BlogsAn “Overbroad” Noncompete – the NLRB Has Found Its First Target10 minute read
- BlogsNLRB Finds Its First Noncompete Target—and Its Charges Go Well Beyond an “Overbroad” Noncompete10 minute read
- BlogsNLRB General Counsel Now Targeting Noncompetes for Nonmanagerial and Nonsupervisory Employees6 minute read
- BlogsNLRB General Counsel Issues Memo Targeting Noncompete Agreements for Nonmanagerial and Nonsupervisory Employees ...6 minute read
- BlogsRacist, Sexist, and Threatening Behavior Is Fine in the Workplace as Long as You Connect It to Union Activity: The Return of ...6 minute read
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Two by Two, Noah’s Ark Decision Expands Remedies Providing No Refuge for Employers
6 minute read - BlogsNLRB General Counsel Seeks to Further Restrict Employer Remarks on How Unionization Impacts Employer-Employee Relations ...7 minute read
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NLRB GC’s McLaren Macomb Memo Provides Murky and Ominous Guidance on Board’s Prohibitions on Non-Disparagement and ...
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Non-Clarified - The NLRB GC’s McLaren Macomb Memo Provides Murky and Ominous Guidance on Board’s Prohibitions on ...
11 minute read - BlogsNon-Disparagement, Non-Disclosure, Non-Allowed: The NLRB Finds Unlawful Confidentiality and Non-Disparagement ...6 minute read
- BlogsThe NLRB Finds Unlawful Confidentiality and Non-Disparagement Provisions in Severance Agreements: Non-Disparagement ...6 minute read
- BlogsD.C. Court of Appeals Scraps Substantive Changes from NLRB’s 2019 Final Rule on Election Procedures but Upholds ...6 minute read
- BlogsNLRB General Counsel Seeks to Restrict Employers’ Right to Permanently Replace Strikers6 minute read
- BlogsNLRB Opens the Door for Contract Workers to Engage in Off-Duty Section 7 Activities Wherever They Work5 minute read
- BlogsThe “Community of Interest” Saga Continues – the Return of Micro-Bargaining Units5 minute read
- BlogsNLRB Offers New Guidance on When It Will Hold an In-Person Election - Replaces Positivity Metric with CDC Tracker ...6 minute read
- BlogsTesla Gets a Dressing Down by the NLRB7 minute read
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Preparing Corporate Messaging in the Wake of Dobbs
4 minute read - PublicationsEmployer Takeaways from NLRB Top Cop Immigration Memo3 minute read
- BlogsNLRB Says Employers Covered by OSHA ETS Have Options, Triggering Duty to Bargain4 minute read