Practice Areas
Industries
Bar and Court Admissions
  • Delaware
  • New Jersey
  • Pennsylvania
  • U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
Education
  • Rutgers Law School, J.D., with honors
  • Dickinson College, B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Matthew M. Collins, Member

973.403.3151 · 973.618.5551 Fax · mcollins@bracheichler.com

Co-Chair, Labor and Employment

Matthew Collins has extensive experience representing clients in all aspects of labor and employment law. He provides strategic counsel to clients on a wide range of labor and employment issues such as discrimination; harassment; whistleblowing; discipline and discharge; layoffs; collective bargaining agreements; reasonable accommodations for disabled employees; and compliance with state and federal family and medical leave acts and applicable wage and hour laws. He also conducts training in these areas for executives, directors, managers, supervisors, and employees and conducts internal investigations of employee complaints. Matthew drafts and provides advice on employment contracts, employment manuals, personnel policies and procedures, restrictive covenants, and severance agreements, among others.

An integral part of Matthew’s practice involves the representation of clients in state and federal court, in arbitrations, and before various administrative agencies including the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights, the United States Department of Labor, and the New Jersey Department of Labor. In addition to litigating all types of employment-related claims, he represents clients in lawsuits arising from business torts, shareholder disputes, contract disputes, and restrictive covenant violations.

Matthew has been included in the “New Jersey Super Lawyers” list by Super Lawyers®* from 2017-2023. (Super Lawyers®, Thomson Reuters Ranking Methodology)

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Professional Activities
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  • Member, New Jersey State Bar Association, Labor & Employment Law Section

 

Insights
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News Icon B|E in the News, April 20, 2022
Brach Eichler’s Matthew Collins was featured on the CBS 2 News segment, “Weed & Work”

📸 via CBSNews.com: Matthew Collins is a cannabis labor and relations lawyer. He said a challenge for employers will be testing for impairment. "Unlike alcohol, which there is a very easy and scientific method for testing that will determine impairment, marijuana usage is a lot different, mostly because marijuana will still be present in your system for weeks at a time," Collins said.

Press Release Icon Firm Announcements & Wins, March 23, 2021
17 Brach Eichler Members Included in 2021 New Jersey Super Lawyers

Twelve Attorneys also Named to New Jersey Rising Stars List This Year

Articles Icon Articles, January 1, 2019
Collins in Law360: Cases to Watch in 2018

Law 360

Blog Icon Blogs, June 25, 2018
Regulatory Updates

Events Icon Events, June 8, 2018
NJ’s Paid Sick Leave Law – What Employers Need to Know

Labor & Employment Seminar, Brach Eichler corporate office

Articles Icon Articles, January 17, 2018
Gorrell and Collins in Becker’s Hospital Review on Opioid Crisis

Becker's Hospital Review

Articles Icon Articles, January 1, 2018
Key New Jersey Cases to Watch in 2018

Law 360 (quoted in)