“We act as outside general counsel to many of our clients, and accordingly assist them on a daily basis with matters large and small, including hiring new employees, employment issues and disputes, exit interviews, negotiating employment agreements, structuring and drafting employee handbooks, and wage and hour compliance.”
Hochheiser & Akmal’s Employment practice is staffed with experienced attorneys who regularly support our clients and their human resources departments in matters related to employment and labor. We act as outside general counsel to many of our clients, and accordingly assist them on a daily basis with matters large and small, including hiring new employees, employment issues and disputes, exit interviews, negotiating employment agreements, structuring and drafting employee handbooks, and wage and hour compliance.
We also counsel clients on employment matters on a case by case basis, and offer assistance on larger projects such as preparing and structuring employee incentive programs, structuring internal policies and documents designed to protect our clients’ trade secrets and confidential information, and structuring and implementing employee handbooks. Our employee handbooks are designed to take advantage of various safe harbors that protect our clients from various claims, enabling our clients to effectively address employee expectation of privacy rights and have the ability to monitor employee emails and establish effective social media policies among others.
We routinely assist clients of all sizes, in almost all locations, and across a variety of industries. With a diverse client base we offer services in numerous employment matters, including:
- Wage and hour compliance
- Handbooks and internal policies
- Employment agreements
- Non-competes and restrictive covenants
- Employee incentive programs
- Terminations and executive exit strategies
- Protecting trade secrets and confidential business information
- Unemployment claims and appeals
- Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) compliance,
- The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA),
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) compliance