Labor, Employment, and Benefits

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. We also work with employers to design and implement effective benefits and executive compensation programs that attract top talent and comply with the law. 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.

Representative experience

• 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.
• Ranked in Chambers USA for Labor & Employment in Upstate New York and Rhode Island.
• Ranked by Law360 as an Employment 100 firm