Developing a workplace in which universal respect is encouraged and maintained, while protecting management’s authority and prerogatives, is critical for any successful and productive enterprise. Bowditch & Dewey attorneys review, prepare and offer advice on:

• Personnel policies and procedures
• Employee handbooks
• Non-compete and non-disclosure agreements
• Sexual harassment policies
• Employment contracts
• Hiring and termination
• Employee performance and discipline
• Sexual harassment prevention and investigation
• Reductions-in-force
• Wage and hour issues, including overtime and proper classification of employees
• FMLA, COBRA, HIPAA, ERISA
• WARN Act compliance

In the field of labor law, we represent management:

• Union election campaigns and lawful union avoidance strategies
• Union contract negotiations
• Grievance and arbitration
• Plant closings and reductions in force