Michael A. Hausknecht
Partner

Practice Areas

Experience

Michael Hausknecht represents employers of all types and sizes in a variety of labor and employment-related contexts. He has extensive experience counseling, advising, and representing management in all traditional labor relations areas, including preventive labor relations, union organizing drives, union decertification efforts, strikes and picketing, collective bargaining negotiations, labor arbitrations, corporate restructuring, reductions-in-force, and mergers and acquisitions.

He has also counseled employers concerning an extensive array of employment policies and procedures, including hiring and pay practices, preemployment physical examinations, substance abuse policies and drug testing, hazard communication and employee health and safety programs, sexual harassment, equal employment opportunity and leave of absence policies, affirmative action plans, employee discipline and discharge, employee references, and using leased employees and independent contractors.

Mr. Hausknecht has represented clients in both representation and unfair labor practice proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board, in labor contract negotiations and arbitration proceedings, in prevailing wage and other wage/hour investigations and hearings, in occupational safety and health investigations and hearings (OSHA), in equal employment opportunity matters before federal and state courts and agencies, and in workers’ compensation and unemployment insurance proceedings. He has been elected by his peers to be included in The Best Lawyers in America® for Labor and Employment Law from 1999 to 2007. In addition, Michael has been recognized as a 2008 "Super Lawyer" in Employment and Labor law based on a peer-review survey by New York Super Lawyers magazine.

Admissions
Mr. Hausknecht is admitted to practice in New York, before the Second Circuit and District of Columbia Circuit Courts of Appeals, and before the United States Supreme Court.

Affiliations
He is a member of the American (Labor Law Section) and New York State (Labor and Employment Law Section) Bar Associations.

Education

Columbia University School of Law, J.D.
University of Rochester , B.A.