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Labor & Employment
 
The lawyers at MDM&C represent employers in a wide-ranging labor and employment practice. We defend clients against various statutory claims of alleged discrimination in hiring, promotion, benefits and discharge, as well as common-law wrongful discharge claims. These cases, which range from nationwide class actions to single plaintiff suits, often have included novel constitutional, statutory, and public policy issues. Our clients have obtained favorable jury verdicts, rejecting discrimination and other claims brought by terminated employees.

In seeking to prevent employment problems, clients rely on our wide experience in litigation for counsel on day-to-day practices that minimize the risk of discrimination and retaliation claims, as well as other claims based on implied contracts in employment handbooks, manuals, and other written and oral representations. Clients seek our advice on substance abuse testing, the requirements of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act, OSHA, and other statutory obligations. We advise and represent clients before federal and state courts and administrative agencies.

In the area of labor law, employers turn to our firm for representation in labor contract disputes, arbitration, picketing, strikes, organizing campaigns, plant closings, and reductions in force. Clients employ us as principal spokespersons in negotiating collective bargaining agreements – or to act as behind-the-scenes legal and tactical advisors. Our labor attorneys also represent employers in unfair practice proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board and the New Jersey Public Employee Relations Commission.

The firm has been in the forefront of employee benefits litigation in state and federal courts and regularly represents clients before the U.S. Department of Labor in issues involving ERISA. Our attorneys who focus on employee-benefit matters represent clients in a broad range of complex cases and class-action suits in federal and state courts. Those matters have included multi-employer plan terminations, retiree benefits terminations, PBGC subrogation claims, and hybrid suits brought by labor unions involving both pension issues and federal labor laws.