Labor & Employment
DP&F’s Labor and Employment Department represents management in a broad range of employment law matters ranging from general advice to complex class-action litigation. Our attorneys possess top-tier national experience and have appeared before courts and agencies throughout the United States. Our background, experience and participation in developing trends allow DP&F to provide a depth of labor and employment law expertise unparalleled in the North Bay, North Coast and Wine Country areas. Our Labor and Employment attorneys have represented clients in civil litigation involving all types of employment disputes such as harassment and discrimination, wrongful termination, wage and working conditions, disability access and accommodation, leaves of absence, whistleblowing and retaliation, employment contract, fraud and misrepresentation, and employee benefit claims. We also handle administrative investigation, enforcement and litigation with agencies such as the Fair Employment and Housing Department, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, OSHA/Cal-OSHA, the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, the United States Department of Labor and the Employment Development Department. Our attorneys are active in civil and administrative appellate proceedings as well, including matters before the full California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, the Workers Compensation Insurance Ratings Bureau, various state and federal appellate courts, and the United States Supreme Court. The Labor and Employment Department also represents management under state and federal labor relations laws. We work with private employers under the both the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) and the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (“ALRA”) as well as public entities covered by state laws such as the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (“MMBA”). DP&F attorneys have broad experience with union activity, organizing campaigns, collective bargaining, grievance adjustment and arbitration, and the defense of unfair labor practice charges. Our attorneys also represent employers in audits by, and litigation against, labor-management benefit funds. The firm’s Labor and Employment Department also focuses on unfair competition and trade secret disputes, including misappropriation by current and former employees, and has litigated such disputes throughout the United States. The attorneys in the Labor and Employment Department are listed below:
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