Labor, Employment & Benefits

/Overview

As a leading employment law firm, we take pride in our commitment to delivering creative, focused, and real-world solutions that help you navigate the complexities of the ever-changing employment landscape.

In today's diverse and evolving workplace, understanding and effectively adhering to labor and employment law is crucial. At Nixon Peabody, we recognize that every workplace is unique. We learn each client’s culture and goals and provide employment 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 ensure employment law compliance. As workplaces evolve and regulators race to keep up, we stay at the forefront of employment law compliance solutions. Our team monitors 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 for Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law and Employment Law - Management in the 2025 edition of Best Law Firms®.
• Ranked in Chambers USA for Labor & Employment in Upstate New York and Rhode Island.
• Ranked by Law360 as an Employment 100 firm