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    Labor & Employment

    Our Labor & Employment practice delivers creative, focused, and real-world solutions to minimize your challenges and keep your business moving forward.
    Overview

    Every workplace is unique. We learn each client’s culture and goals and provide counsel that minimizes the workplace disruptions that impact business. Whether it’s a routine hire gone awry, a wage-and-hour class action, a high stakes Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) matter, or a precedent-setting labor dispute, our diverse team of 60+ nationwide labor and employment attorneys can help you make the best decisions to protect your workforce and your business. As workplaces evolve and regulators race to keep up, we monitor thousands of employment laws governing your business and its people. We are leaders in the fast-moving COVID-19 compliance space, tracking developments in public health and OSHA guidance to help clients prepare practical and legally sound plans.

    • Natural Gas Company: Assisting in enhancing its occupational safety and health compliance programs
    • Technology Company: Advising on COVID-19-related employment policies, procedures, and issues, including employee testing, contact tracing procedures, remote working arrangements, business and leisure travel, workplace setup, and business shutdown requirements, among other protocols
    • Benefits Administrator: Representing the administrator of healthcare and pension benefits for active and retired longshore workers in multiple ERISA disputes
    • Online Wine Retailer: Representing in a New York labor law class action where plaintiff seeks damages for untimely payment of wages
    • Various Private Employers: Representing in traditional labor law matters, including collective bargaining, arbitrations, strikes, and unionization attempts
    Recognition
    • Nixon Peabody has been named a Tier 1 National firm by U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” in 2020 and 2023 for Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Employment Law - Management, and Labor Law - Management. We also received First Tier metropolitan rankings for Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Employment Law - Management, Labor Law - Management, and Litigation - Labor & Employment.
    • In addition, many Nixon Peabody practices received U.S. News/Best Lawyers Tier 1 rankings at the regional level in the following geographies: Albany, New York; Boston; Buffalo; Chicago; Long Island; Los Angeles; Manchester, New Hampshire; New York City; Providence, Rhode Island; Rochester, New York; San Francisco; and Washington, DC.
    • Employment attorneys ranked as leading lawyers in their fields by Chambers USA/Global
    • Ranked by Law360 as an Employment 100 firm

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    Today’s evolving workplace necessitates employing innovative strategies for remote work, employee health and safety, and diversity and inclusion to retain and grow employees.

    Rachel ConnPartner, Labor & Employment

    Our Team

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    • Tara E. Daub

      Partner / Practice Group Leader, Labor & Employment
      • Long Island
      • Office:516.832.7613
      • tdaub@nixonpeabody.com
      Tara E. Daub
    • Richard J. Frey

      Partner
      • Los Angeles
      • Office:213.629.6177
      • rfrey@nixonpeabody.com
      Richard J. Frey
    • Kimberly Harding

      Partner / Deputy Leader, Litigation Department
      Leader, Labor Relations Team
      • Rochester
      • Office:585.263.1037
      • kharding@nixonpeabody.com
      Kimberly Harding
    • Stacie B. Collier

      Partner / Chief Talent Officer
      • Providence
      • Office:401.454.1018
      • sbcollier@nixonpeabody.com
      Stacie B. Collier
    • Rachel L. Conn

      Partner / Leader, Occupational Safety & Health (OSHA) Practice
      • San Francisco
      • Office:415.984.8216
      • rconn@nixonpeabody.com
      Rachel L. Conn
    • Jeffrey B. Gilbreth

      Partner
      • Boston
      • Office:617.345.1371
      • jgilbreth@nixonpeabody.com
      Jeffrey B. Gilbreth
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