Labor & Employment
Single & Multiple Plaintiff Employment Litigation
Jones Day labor and employment attorneys represent clients through all stages of the administrative process and, when warranted, in litigation of employment claims.
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Labor & Employment Health Care Law
Jones Day's Labor & Employment/Health Care team is one of the largest in the United States and offers health care institutions experienced, sophisticated, and cost-effective representation concerning all aspects of personnel-related legal matters.
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Federal and State Wage-Hour Counseling & Litigation
As a full-service provider of labor and employment legal services, Jones Day offers both counseling and litigation defense in the area of wage and hour law.
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Railway Labor Act
For over 25 years, our labor and employment lawyers have represented railroads, airlines, and companies providing transportation-related services covered by the Railway Labor Act (RLA).
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Employee Benefits Counseling & Litigation
Our Labor & Employment Practice lawyers have developed in-depth experience handling complex, high-exposure litigation related to employee benefits, often involving hundreds of millions of dollars and covering tens of thousands of participants.
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Class Action Employment Litigation
Our lawyers are among the most experienced in the country in defending employers against significant class action and multiplaintiff cases.
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Employment Aspects of Corporate Transactions
In conjunction with our corporate and employee benefits lawyers, we advise clients on the myriad labor, employment, and employee benefits issues that arise in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, bankruptcies, and other changes in corporate ownership.
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NLRB Proceedings & Appeals
The Firm's traditional labor law practice before the National Labor Relations Board encompasses nearly every industry, in all regions of the country.
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Noncompetition, Confidentiality, Trade Secret & Employee Raiding
Together with lawyers in our Trial and Intellectual Property practices, we represent companies in disputes involving the enforcement of covenants not to compete, alleged misappropriation of trade secrets, and efforts by competitors to hire their employees.
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Collective Bargaining, Contract Enforcement & Union Organizing
Our labor and employment lawyers advise employers concerning legal issues that arise in union representation campaigns and proceedings.
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Jones Day's Labor & Employment Practice comprises more than 150 dedicated practitioners located in the Americas, Europe, and Asia, offering corporate clients experienced, sophisticated, and cost-effective representation concerning all aspects of employment-related legal matters. Our clients benefit from the strength of our multidisciplinary L&E team, in both employment litigation and traditional labor matters. Our global reach, multi-office teams, and seamless transfer of resources within the Firm allow us to bring the best of the practice to every client engagement.
In 2008 The American Lawyer named Jones Day as the nation’s best Labor & Employment practice in the magazine’s prestigious Litigation Department of the Year competition. The award highlighted successes in both traditional labor and employment arenas. In 2010 Chambers USA for the fourth consecutive year and PLC Which lawyer? for the second consecutive year honored our L&E practice as one of three #1 practices in the U.S. The Legal 500 US awarded our practice the highest recommendation in L&E litigation for the third year in a row.
Chambers noted that the Practice "…excels in high stakes class action litigation and receives particular recognition for its wage and hour expertise." The Legal 500 US noted that "Jones Day remains a first class labor and employment litigation firm. 'The service is outstanding – and we [client] have received excellent results…'"
The breadth and depth of our L&E practice permits us to handle all of the client’s labor and employment needs, including serving as lead trial counsel in complex, high exposure matters, arguing appeals, as well as handling complex collective bargaining and NLRB work. Our experience handling class and collective action litigation is unparalleled. We have defended class and collective actions involving all manner of employment claims from age, race and gender discrimination, to wage-hour compliance governing pay practices, to accessibility standards for disabled customers, to benefits claims.
Clients include Abbott Laboratories, Advocate Healthcare, Bank of America, Bloomberg, California Pizza Kitchen, Continental Tire, Dick's Sporting Goods, General Motors, Goldman Sachs, HCA Healthcare, IBM, LXR Luxury Resorts, McDonald's, Medstar Health, Morton's Restaurant Group, Verizon, and other diverse companies.
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