Labor & Employment | McGuireWoods

Time 2021-01-07 08:03:15

Web Name: Labor & Employment | McGuireWoods

WebSite: http://www.laborrelationstoday.com

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McGuireWoods offers clients access to over 60 labor and employment lawyers across the United States and Europe. Our clients include local, national and multinational employers from small businesses to governmental entities and nonprofits to Fortune 500 companies. We cross borders, practices and industries in the United States and around the world, collaborating with colleagues and managing resources to deliver the highest value to clients. We counsel employers in every aspect of the employer/employee relationship, including federal, state and international law compliance; traditional labor issues; internal investigations; and executive compensation.Our depth and experience crosses key areas of employment law, includingwage and hour class and collective actions; large portfolios ranging fromsingle-plaintiff statutory claims to systemic class actions across thecountry; traditional labor work; and OFCCP audits and counseling. We standready to support our clients where they need us.We work with clients proactively to prevent, triage, defend and resolveinternal and external workplace disputes, claims and litigation. We arealso at the forefront of providing strategic advice and counsel dealingwith the myriad employment issues arising from the ongoing COVID-19pandemic. We collaborate with clients to deliver tailored employmentservices in the most flexible, efficient manner possible, which includesthe use of alternative fee arrangements, value-added billing and retainers.If litigation proves inevitable, our team is ready to aggressively defendour clients from Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) disputes, federal andstate civil rights and antidiscrimination claims, trade secret and employeeraiding actions, and whistleblower and other suits. We also representemployers in a wide range of administrative proceedings, including oncharges of discrimination filed with the EEOC and state and local humanrights agencies, in DOL compliance checks and audits, and in proceedingsbefore administrative forums and in federal and state courts. Labor and employment team bars plaintiff from recovering on judicial estoppel grounds A team of McGuireWoods attorneys successfully barred a plaintiff from recovering in a disability discrimination case against our client, a leading independent national distributor of natural, organic and specialty foods. The plaintiff, a forklift operator, alleged disability discrimination after he claimed that asthma prevented him from working in freezers or coolers and was subsequently terminated. Although the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) found probable cause that he had been the victim of discrimination, prompting an investigation of the accommodation policies in place at our client’s facility, the plaintiff did not fare as well in federal court after McGuireWoods discovered that he had filed for bankruptcy without disclosing his pending charge and claims to the Bankruptcy Court. Our client filed a motion to dismiss and asked the Court to find plaintiff judicially estopped from any recovery. In an attempt at salvaging his claims, plaintiff reopened the bankruptcy proceedings. The Judge found this attempt unavailing and ruled that the failure to timely disclose the claim precluded the plaintiff from any recovery. Please note that unsolicited emails and attached information sent to McGuireWoods or a firm attorney via this website do not create an attorney-client relationship. If you are not a McGuireWoods client, do not send us any confidential information. We may not respond to unsolicited emails and do not consider them or attached information confidential. That means we may disclose unsolicited emails and attachments to third parties, and your unsolicited communications will not prevent any lawyer in our firm from representing a party and using the unsolicited communications against you. By clicking "accept" you confirm that you have read and understand this notice.

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