Our team of skilled and zealous trial attorneys has helped to shape modern labor and employment law. We regularly represent employers in the following types of litigation:
- Discrimination
- Harassment and hostile work environment
- Retaliation
- Class and collective actions
- Pattern or practice and other government enforcement actions
- Wage and hour
- Employee leave
- Failure to accommodate
- Whistleblower
- Worker misclassification
- Workplace violence
- Wrongful termination
- Breach of noncompetition, nonsolicitation, nondisclosure agreements
- Theft of trade secrets and unfair competition
- Traditional contract claims, promissory estoppel, covenant of good faith and fair dealing
- Traditional torts, such as defamation and intentional infliction of emotional stress
Sherman & Howard’s Labor & Employment trial attorneys defend employers across the nation in lawsuits involving federal and state statutes and regulations, including:
- Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- Equal Pay Act (EPA)
- Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
- Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
- Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA)
- Mine Safety and Health Act (MSHA)
- National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
- Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
- Civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO)
- Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1991
- Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871
- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA)
- Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN)