Jones Day's Labor & Employment/Health Care Practice is one of the largest in the U.S. and offers health care institutions throughout the country experienced, sophisticated, and cost-effective representation concerning all aspects of personnel-related legal matters.
The Labor & Employment/Health Care Practice includes experience in labor and employment matters in the following areas: employment discrimination, both administrative agency and court-based employment litigation; traditional labor work, involving high-level strategic planning and representation in union-organizing campaigns, collective bargaining, grievance and arbitration representation, NLRB, and related court proceedings; labor and employment aspects of acquisition, divestitures, and bankruptcy work; executive retention, compensation, and separation; ERISA and employee benefits; and other areas of regulation, such as OSHA and wage and hour regulation. The Labor & Employment Practice's class action experience includes representation of employers in wage and hour and employment discrimination class action cases. Other areas of our labor and employment representation include:
- ADA counseling and litigation.
- Appeals of labor and employment cases in federal and state appellate courts.
- Counseling, training, and representation with respect to various human resources issues arising in the health care workplace.
- Employment contracts and restrictive covenant issues.
- FMLA counseling and litigation.
- Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs counseling and representation.
- Reorganizations, reductions in force, and facility closings, including WARN Act issues.
- Sexual harassment counseling and defense litigation.
- Strike-related advice and litigation.
- Substance abuse issues and testing.
- Supervisory training in all areas of labor and employment law.
- Wrongful discharge matters.
Finally, the Firm’s various office locations throughout the U.S. permit us to respond in a timely manner and on an effective basis to health care institutions' labor and employment representation needs in all areas of the country.