Brach Eichler’s Labor and Employment practice group represents leading companies, organizations and individuals in solving their most critical business and legal issues.
Counseling: Our Labor & Employment Group helps employers in the private, not-for-profit and public spheres, meet the complex legal, compliance, and human resources challenges common in today’s workplace. Our team assists employers with specific federal and state regulation compliance, employment policies and agreement drafting, agency investigations and audits, and employee benefits, among other matters. We are advisors for in-house counsel, HR professionals and management teams looking to develop policies, and strategies. We focus on working with clients to prevent issues before they occur. As labor laws and regulations are increasing and more complicated every year, we aim to keep our clients informed on how these laws affect their business and procedures to enable senior management to make informed, proactive and effective decisions, minimizing litigation risk and reducing risk.
Litigation: Our team also represents employers and employees in litigation and arbitrations that arise out of all forms of workplace disputes such as wage and hour claims, pay equity claims, harassment, discrimination, and retaliation claims, whistleblower claims, restrictive covenants disputes, trade secret and confidential information protection, ERISA plan disputes, and all other manner of disputes. We regularly litigate the full range of labor-management issues that arise in federal and state courts, and private labor arbitration for contract disputes. Employers and employees turn to our team when they are headed to trial and their reputations are on the line. While many of our cases resolve before trial, our employment litigation team includes several trial lawyers who have taken these dispute through jury trial and arbitration hearings.
Unionized Employers: We also excel at all aspects of the labor-management relationship for those employers with a unionized workforce. Our practice includes all aspects of the union-employer relationship, from advising employers in union election campaigns to conducting collective bargaining negotiations, and handling grievances, arbitrations, labor board proceedings and other matters that arise in the course of contract administration.
Employee Benefits: Our Labor & Employment practice provides comprehensive counsel on employee benefits, executive compensation, and compliance with ERISA and other regulatory requirements. We assist employers in designing, implementing, and managing retirement plans, health and welfare benefits, and equity compensation programs. Our team also advises on benefits-related issues in mergers and acquisitions, regulatory audits, and fiduciary responsibilities. With a proactive approach, we help clients navigate complex legal landscapes to ensure compliance and mitigate risk while supporting their workforce effectively.
Training: We provide educational advice and workplace training programs for employees, management, and human resources professionals on a variety of key issues human resource concerns including harassment and discrimination, privacy, diversity etc.
Brach Eichler assisted with matters from furloughed employees, unemployment matters, and general labor matters quickly, efficiently and effectively. Outstanding team, great to work with such professionals! 
