Overview
For employers grappling with a dynamic legal landscape, workplace compliance can seem like a moving target. Epstein Becker Green acts as a strategic business partner for your human capital needs, helping you anticipate change and shape solutions in real time.
Employers of all sizes—from start-ups to international Fortune 100 corporations—rely on us for advice in all 50 states and around the world. Whether we’re providing day-to-day counsel, investigating bad actors, or planning for a reorganization, we engage fully with your unique business issues as we help you navigate evolving federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
Counsel for Day-to-Day (and Year-to-Year) Needs
Our approach to counseling goes beyond answering one-off questions. Our lawyers commit to your business, learn your operations, and often act as embedded or outside "in-house" counsel. Working closely with human resources and in-house legal teams, we draft policies, procedures, and agreements that inspire engagement and incentivize productivity. We often advise on issues at the leading edge of the law, setting precedent in employment, discipline, termination, leave of absence, and reasonable accommodation policy and practice decisions. We draft and negotiate state-of-the-art employment, consulting, intellectual property, confidentiality, restrictive covenant, separation, and other agreements for employees at all levels. No matter how novel or complex the question, our knowledge of both your business and the relevant laws helps us resolve problems efficiently.
Responding to Emerging Technologies, Social Movements, and World Events
From artificial intelligence (AI), equal pay, and remote/hybrid work to social justice and economic uncertainty, emerging technologies, social movements, and world events profoundly affect the workplace. We help companies anticipate important trends and make the changes employees and regulators want to see in recruiting and hiring policies, agile working structures, and more. Employers also seek our guidance on using AI tools in the workplace, conducting pay equity analyses, handling remote and hybrid work arrangements, planning for pandemics and future emergencies, and creating diverse and inclusive workplaces. In addition, we deliver valuable benchmarking information that shows you options and what’s “market” for employers in your industry.
Handling Business Upheaval
Major business change comes with major people—and legal—issues. We've worked with companies through every stage of the business cycle—and we know how to handle the critical employment concerns in management changes, going public, restructurings, reductions in force, and corporate relocations. We help employers with wage and hour issues (including conducting audits and assessing whether workers are classified properly), employee relations improvements, employee benefit plans, and executive compensation. And when a company wants to stop departing employees from competing against or otherwise interfering with the business, we advise on the use of restrictive covenants, pointing out jurisdictional differences as to their enforceability, duration, geographical scope, and notice requirements. We also prepare you to respond to public and media interest when major business changes occur.
Coordinated Strategies
How do you set employment policy for a company doing business in 50 states—and various cities within those states? Talk to lawyers who've been on the ground in all 50. We provide best practices, from hiring and onboarding processes, to required notices, postings, and policies, through employment restrictions and entitlements upon termination of employment. We draw on the knowledge of lawyers across our offices to address the nuances of local and state legal developments and provide consistent, comprehensive solutions.
Internal Investigations
When an employee makes a claim of misconduct, harassment, or discrimination, employers need to act fast. Whether we lead an investigation or advise a company on how to conduct its own, employers rely on us to help them marshal the facts and make critical decisions. We collect and review documents, conduct interviews, and, if appropriate, draft a written report of our findings. We understand the importance of completing the investigation in an expeditious manner. Companies also hire us to review previous investigations or provide a second opinion. Should litigation or arbitration arise, we use our findings to develop compelling legal arguments and present sound fact witnesses.
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- Successfully counseled a highly trusted advisor and counselor to many of the world’s most influential businesses and institutions in its potential onboarding and hiring of more than 200 global partners and members of the executive leadership team in over 20 countries across six continents. We continue to provide due diligence and strategic advice to this client on a global basis.
- Assisted a publicly traded global insurance company in investigating allegations of misconduct by two executives. We also prepared and negotiated severance agreements, termination scripts, internal and external announcements, and notice to applicable regulatory agencies, thus avoiding a costly and disruptive dispute that would have attracted unwanted media attention.
- Provided human resource advice and counsel to a medical sector specialty company in Connecticut on such topics as the acquisition of new businesses, restructurings, confidentiality agreements, severance agreements, and multistate employee handbooks. We continue to counsel this client nationally on employee disciplinary and accommodation matters.
- Advised a water services company on conducting a reduction in force in compliance with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (“WARN”) Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and other state and federal laws. We acted as the lead labor and employment adviser in this reduction in force, which resulted in substantial cost savings to the company.
- Evaluated, on behalf of multiple clients, artificial intelligence (“AI”) vendors for the clients’ employee recruitment, selection, and onboarding functions. We assisted our clients in assessing the product offerings, reviewing vendor contracts, identifying the appropriate questions to ask the vendors about their AI products, monitoring and testing those products, and evaluating whether those products would raise any legal issues.
- Provide day-to-day employment law services to a growing pharmaceutical company in the Northeast. We have supplied workplace compliance counseling on matters such as employee discipline, leave requests, and hirings and terminations.
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- PublicationsOn Trend: New Pay Equity Laws Coming to Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Vermont in 202513 minute read
- Media CoveragePaul DeCamp Quoted in “What Employers Need to Know Now That the 80/20 Tip Credit Rule Has Been Overturned”4 minute read
- Blogs
What the FTC Non-Compete Ban Block Means for Employers - Employment Law This Week Video
2 minute read - Media CoverageKathleen Barrett Quoted in “3 Tips for Navigating Tip Credit Rule's Demise”3 minute read
- Blogs“Fair Chance” Updates: Los Angeles County Ordinance Takes Effect; New York City Proposes Amendments to Existing Law ...8 minute read
- Publications#WorkforceWednesday: Courts Side with Employers – Tip Credit Rule and Non-Compete Ban Struck Down Nationwide3 minute read
- BlogsMI Agencies Request Clarity on New Minimum Wage & Tip Credit Requirements3 minute read
- BlogsMental Health Parity Rules Incoming: What Employers Need to Know7 minute read
- BlogsVideo: New DOJ Whistleblower Program - What Employers Must Know - Employment Law This Week3 minute read
- Media CoveragePaul DeCamp Quoted in “5 Wage Priorities in the Democrats' 2024 Platform”4 minute read
- Media CoverageBrian Cesaratto Quoted in “New Jersey Legislation to Watch: A Midyear Report”3 minute read
- Firm Announcements
Adam S. Forman Named to the 2024 Michigan Super Lawyers List
7 minute read - BlogsIllinois Prohibits Discriminatory Artificial Intelligence in Employment Decisions5 minute read
- BlogsVideo: State Legal Trends - Crucial Changes for Employers - Employment Law This Week4 minute read
- BlogsA New Prescription for Access: The Department of Justice Celebrates Anniversary of the ADA by Finally Issuing Title II ...9 minute read
- BlogsChanges Coming in 2025 to Michigan Minimum Wage, Tip Credit, and Earned Sick Time7 minute read
- BlogsInsurers in the Crosshairs, Part II: New York’s Final Insurance Circular Letter on Consumer Data and AI-Infused Insurance ...11 minute read
- BlogsSpilling Secrets Podcast: What Is the Future of Non-Compete Agreements for Employers?2 minute read
- BlogsNew York City Prohibits Provisions Shortening Statutes of Limitations for Complaints and Civil Actions Related to ...3 minute read
- Media CoverageShawndra Jones Quoted in “How Associates Can Navigate Risks of Social Media”3 minute read
- BlogsVideo: SpaceX Victory - Court Questions NLRB's Constitutional Authority - Employment Law This Week4 minute read
- Media CoverageSports Brain—How Former Soccer Star Haley Morrison Feeds Her Competitive Instincts5 minute read
- BlogsSpilling Secrets Podcast: Can FTC’s Non-Compete Ban Survive Without Chevron Deference?2 minute read
- Media Coverage
Paul DeCamp Quoted in “What Employers Can Expect Following the End of Chevron Deference”
3 minute read - BlogsVideo: Chevron Deference Overturned - Employment Law This Week4 minute read
- BlogsCalifornia District Court Rules That Software Vendor Is Subject to Title VII, the ADA, the ADEA12 minute read
- Media CoverageAdam S. Forman Quoted in “Employers Find Openings to Share AI Bias Liability with Vendors”2 minute read
- BlogsPumping the Brakes: New York Seeks to Curb AI Acceleration in Labor Market10 minute read
- Media CoverageAdam S. Forman Quoted in “4 State AI Bills to Watch in 2nd Half of 2024”2 minute read
- PublicationsSocial Media and the Law (2024 Edition)2 minute read
- Media CoverageDean Singewald Quoted in “State Pay Equity Laws May Ease Path for EEOC Salary Survey”3 minute read
- Blogs
California Governor’s PAGA Deal: What Employers Need to Know - Employment Law This Week
2 minute read - BlogsAct Now: New York Employers Must Provide Paid Lactation Breaks to Employees4 minute read
- Blogs
Supreme Court Overturns Chevron—but for Stakeholders, the Impact Is No Cause for Alarm
5 minute read - BlogsFifth Circuit Narrows Application of the Crime-Fraud Exception to the Attorney-Client Privilege in Investigations ...3 minute read
- Media CoverageFrank Morris Quoted in “New D.C. Pay Transparency Law Could Apply to Virginia, Maryland Employers”2 minute read
- BlogsCaution - Employers Merge Ahead: Massachusetts Holding Endorses Potential Liability for “Joint Employers”3 minute read
- BlogsFreelance Isn’t Free Act Soon Takes Effect Throughout New York State6 minute read
- BlogsClearing Up Confusion: New Jersey Division on Civil Rights Proposes Detailed Guidelines Concerning What Constitutes ...5 minute read
- Media CoverageJennifer Barna Quoted in “Workers Feeling PWFA's Impact After 1st Year in Effect”2 minute read
- BlogsSpilling Secrets Podcast: Protecting Trade Secrets with E-Discovery2 minute read
- BlogsThe Commodity Futures Trading Commission Cracks Down on Employer Non-Disclosure Provisions3 minute read
- BlogsCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Rules That “Unreasonable Opposition” Dooms Retaliation Claim5 minute read
- PublicationsChicago’s Paid Leave and Paid Sick Leave Ordinance Takes Effect Soon – Are You Ready?13 minute read
- BlogsDon’t Miss the Deadline: New York City Employers Must Display “Know Your Rights” by July 1, 20243 minute read
- Media CoverageJeff Ruzal Quoted in “Overcome Communication Challenges When Reclassifying Employees”2 minute read
- Firm Announcements
Epstein Becker Green Receives National Recognition and Top Rankings in the 2024 Edition of Legal 500
3 minute read - Media CoverageJennifer Barna Quoted in “Robust EEOC Amicus Program Tackles AI, High Court Rulings”4 minute read
- BlogsVideo: Key SCOTUS Decisions This Term for Employers - Employment Law This Week3 minute read
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An Oxymoron or a Road Map? US Department of Labor’s Artificial Intelligence and Worker Well-Being
5 minute read