EMC2 provides employment legal services to companies on a wide array of matters, including:
Hiring
- Hiring and recruiting practices, including background checks, applications, offer letters, job descriptions
- Executive employment and change in control agreements
- Proper classification of exempt/nonexempt employees and independent contractor arrangements
- Recordkeeping and required filings
Policy Matters
- Creation and implementation of employee handbooks
- Discrimination and harassment policies
- Leave policies
- Proprietary information and related trade secret policies
- Grievance and disciplinary procedures
- Employment law compliance audits
Employee Relations
- Evaluations and probationary periods
- Proprietary information protection
- Leave requests and extensions
- Performance problems, corrective actions, and disciplinary procedures
- Workplace disputes and resolutions
- Management and executive training
- Handling and investigation of discrimination and harassment claims and workplace violence issues
Conclusion of the Employment Relationship
- Termination considerations, decisions, and risk assessment
- Severance packages and negotiations
- Reductions in force
Disputes
- Investigation, advice, negotiation, mediation and resolution of claims, including discrimination, harassment, wage and hour disputes, employee classification, and trade secret misappropriation
- Representation before state and federal agencies, including EEOC, DFEH, DLSE, EDD, OSHA and Department of Labor
Labor Issues
- Advice clients regarding labor and management relations