Labor and Employment Counseling and Training

Labor and Employment Counseling and Training

The Labor, Employment Law and Employee Benefits practice at Pullman & Comley counsels our clients, and provides education and training programs, on a wide range of personnel policies, practices, and other employment-related topics.  Our education and training programs can be tailored for executives, managers, human resources personnel, or “all hands” sessions. Our goal is to assist our clients in developing and maintaining employment policies and practices that comply with current law and will help them to achieve their business objectives and avoid litigation. 

We assist our clients with a broad range of employment and benefits-related matters, including  the following: 

• Analyzing and implementing reasonable accommodation strategies for employees with disabilities or needing religious accommodations
• Anti-harassment training for executives, supervisors, and staff
• Developing customized strategies to address hiring, performance issues, discipline and discharge
• Planning and implementing workforce reductions
• Designing and drafting personnel policies and employee handbooks
• Designing and drafting employee benefits plans
• Negotiating employment contracts and severance agreements
• Interpreting and applying wage and hour laws
• Resisting union organizing drives and managing representation elections
• Resolving union contract and discipline disputes through grievance procedures and arbitration
• Drafting noncompete agreements
• Supervisory training regarding employment law, practice, and policy
• Drafting affirmative action plans

The attorneys in our Labor, Employment Law & Employee Benefits practice write about current developments in labor, employment and employee benefits law in: "Working Together," our blog found at http://workingtogether.pullcomblog.com.

• Representing a Connecticut municipality in a free speech case litigating through the U.S. District Court, Court of Appeals, until certiorari was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court
• Superior Court trial of a disability discrimination case for an employer to a directed verdict
• Represent a nonprofit foundation, created by the Connecticut legislature to make and guarantee student loans, in a dispute with a former executive who claims entitlement to a separation payment equivalent to over two years of salary
• On an ongoing basis, advise many businesses, large and small, concerning their employment policies and compliance with state and federal employment laws. These clients include, for example, a nationally prominent architectural firm, a high-tech "incubator" of new software-based businesses and products, a broker and manager of mailing lists, a manufacturer of theatrical sets and scenery, and a number of medical practices and other law firms
• Advised a leading manufacturer of professional instrumentation, medical technologies, industrial technologies and tools and components concerning the closure of certain Connecticut facilities. This matter involved compliance with the federal WARN statute as well as with state law requiring continuation of medical insurance benefits
• Frequently act as local counsel for out-of-state law firms with national clients facing litigation in Connecticut
• Successfully resolved a disparate impact, national original discrimination lawsuit brought by the EEOC challenging employer-client's "English-only" rule

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