Michael Hausknecht has represented employers of all types and sizes for over thirty years 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 screening, substance abuse policies and drug testing, hazard communication and employee health and safety programs, harassment, equal employment opportunity and leave of absence policies, 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.