Preventive Counseling
The Hamideh Firm, P.C. advises businesses in the most relevant and sensitive labor and employment matters. As the increase in employment litigation continues, the best approach to preventing disputes and responding to lawsuits is to implement comprehensive, lawful, and up-to-date workplace policies and practices that are effectively communicated and fairly and consistently applied.
We counsel employers with respect to employment discrimination, wrongful termination, wage and hour issues, trade secret misappropriation, affirmative action, use of independent contractors, intellectual property issues, hiring, promotion, compensation, termination, and unfair competition.
We specifically provide preventive counseling in the following areas:
- Hiring guidelines and employment contracts
- Wage and hour compliance
- Employee handbooks, policy manuals, and drug testing plans
- Employment and independent contractor agreements
- Reduction in force policies and best practices
- Terminations, severance plans, and releases
- Protecting trade secrets; noncompetition covenants
- Privacy issues
- Manage sexual harassment training (including prevention)
- Discrimination and harassment claims
- Protecting confidential business information
- Leaves of absence and return to work issues
- Immigration law for employers
- Family and medical leave
- Whistleblower issues and workplace investigations
- Wrongful termination; reductions in force
- Mediation and arbitration of employment disputes
- Auditing workplace practices
Our attorneys also advise employers on policy development, and counsel managers and supervisors on the significance of documentation and enforcement. As labor and employment laws and regulations are constantly changing, we advise employers on the affects these changes have to ensure their compliance and prevent employment disputes and litigation.