Labor & Employment

We get the job done when handling employment and labor problems.

Any organization with a few employees or a few thousand employees has the potential for employment or labor problems. These issues can bring a business on the move to a sudden stand still. To make sure your business keeps going, Lashly & Baer, P.C. provides comprehensive experience in representing and advising employers in all aspects of labor relations and employment law.

We work closely with our clients to create and implement clear and concise employee handbooks, advise on and drafting policies, and offer training seminars on new and updated laws affecting our clients' businesses. The outcome? Our attorneys help to minimize the probability of employment conflicts.

Of course, even with the best of defenses, no employer is completely immune from employment claims. We are skilled at conducting thorough investigations into claims in the defense of our clients. Whenever possible, our attorneys will negotiate a solution beneficial to both sides through mediation or other alternative means. We are also fully prepared to aggressively represent our clients in court.

Lashly & Baer, P.C. attorneys represent private and public employers in race, age, sex, disability, and religion discrimination claims before the EEOC, state human rights commissions and in federal and state trial and appellate courts. We also have experience in the defense of constitutional law claims We even enforce and defended against the enforcement of noncompetition, confidentiality and trade secret agreements.

Traditional labor organizations turn to us for our experience in collective bargaining negotiations, union avoidance, unfair labor practice charges, unlawful union activities, and labor arbitrations. Plus, we also counsel employers in union organizing campaigns, elections and union decertification proceedings.

Lashly & Baer, P.C. is there to help when your face strikes, picketing, hand billing, work stoppages during the collective bargaining process. We have designed, implemented and provided legal counsel for employee welfare benefit plans, retirement plans, and executive compensation plans in compliance with the Internal Revenue Code and Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).

Our job is to make sure your workers keep doing theirs. It’s another example our “just results” philosophy.

Our labor & employment attorneys are active members of the following: