Labor & Employment
Single & Multiple Plaintiff Employment Litigation
Jones Day labor and employment attorneys represent clients through all stages of the administrative process and, when warranted, in litigation of employment claims.
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European Labor Law
In addition to our U.S. capabilities, Jones Day has labor and employment lawyers working in Brussels, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich, and Paris.
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Labor & Employment Health Care Law
Jones Day's Labor & Employment/Health Care team is one of the largest in the United States and offers health care institutions experienced, sophisticated, and cost-effective representation concerning all aspects of personnel-related legal matters.
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Federal and State Wage-Hour Counseling & Litigation
As a full-service provider of labor and employment legal services, Jones Day offers both counseling and litigation defense in the area of wage and hour law.
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Asia Labor & Employment
In Asia our lawyers have experience across a broad range of employment matters encountered by companies doing business throughout the region.
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Employee Benefits Counseling & Litigation
Our Labor & Employment Practice lawyers have developed in-depth experience handling complex, high-exposure litigation related to employee benefits, often involving hundreds of millions of dollars and covering tens of thousands of participants.
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Class Action Employment Litigation
Our lawyers are among the most experienced in the country in defending employers against significant class action and multiplaintiff cases.
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Employment Aspects of Corporate Transactions
In conjunction with our corporate and employee benefits lawyers, we advise clients on the myriad labor, employment, and employee benefits issues that arise in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, bankruptcies, and other changes in corporate ownership.
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NLRB Proceedings & Appeals
The Firm's traditional labor law practice before the National Labor Relations Board encompasses nearly every industry, in all regions of the country.
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Noncompetition, Confidentiality, Trade Secret & Employee Raiding
Together with lawyers in our Trial and Intellectual Property practices, we represent companies in disputes involving the enforcement of covenants not to compete, alleged misappropriation of trade secrets, and efforts by competitors to hire their employees.
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Reductions in Force & Managing Change
Our labor and employment attorneys advise clients on the myriad labor, employment, and employee benefit issues that arise in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, bankruptcies, and other changes in corporate ownership.
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Counseling & Litigation
Jones Day represents clients in complex OSHA enforcement actions covering the entire spectrum of issues that arise under the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
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Collective Bargaining, Contract Enforcement & Union Organizing
Our labor and employment lawyers advise employers concerning legal issues that arise in union representation campaigns and proceedings.
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Jones Day's Labor & Employment Practice comprises more than 160 dedicated practitioners located in North America, Europe, and Asia, offering corporate clients experienced, sophisticated, and cost-effective representation concerning all aspects of employment-related legal matters. Our clients benefit from the strength of our multidisciplinary L&E team, in both employment litigation and traditional labor matters. Our global reach, multi-office teams, and seamless transfer of resources within the Firm allow us to bring the best of the practice to every client engagement.
In 2008 The American Lawyer named Jones Day as the nation’s best Labor & Employment practice in the magazine’s prestigious Litigation Department of the Year competition. The award highlighted recent successes in both traditional labor and employment arenas. In 2009 Chambers USA and The Legal 500 US honored our Labor & Employment practice as one of three #1 practices in the United States.
Chambers noted that the Practice "…continues to be a favored destination for high-profile clients drawn by its renowned handling of high-stakes class actions and premier labor relations and collective bargaining skills." Additionally, sixteen Labor & Employment partners were recognized for their significant contributions to the practice. The Legal 500 US (2009) named Jones Day among the "best of the best" firms for labor and employment litigation, noting that "…Jones Day’s excellent employment litigation practice is reinforced by tremendous counseling and all-round employment expertise."
The breadth and depth of our L&E practice permits us to handle all of the client’s labor and employment needs, including serving as lead trial counsel in complex, high exposure matters, arguing appeals, as well as handling complex collective bargaining and NLRB work. Our experience handling class and collective action litigation is unparalleled. We have defended class and collective actions involving all manner of employment claims from age, race and gender discrimination, to wage-hour compliance governing pay practices, to accessibility standards for disabled customers, to benefits claims.
Clients include Abbott Laboratories, Advocate Healthcare, AstraZeneca, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Bridgestone, CareerBuilder, Continental Tire, GE, HCA Healthcare, IBM, Lennar, LXR Luxury Resorts, McDonald's, Morton's Restaurant Group, Sutter Healthcare, Verizon, Verizon Wireless, and other diverse companies.
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