• Provide compliance to multistate employers across the full array of topics from paid sick leave to pay practices, pay upon termination and more. 
• Help navigate the volume of escalating and “novel” accommodation requests in labs, R&D and GMP environments (on site vs. remote, interactive process, essential functions). 
• Advise on all aspects of leave management, including the applicability of relevant laws to outside sales representatives. 
• Coach clients throughout the interactive process, including documentation and policy design.

Disability, Leave and Health Management

• Help manage FLSA and state patchwork compliance complexity that comes from using contractors, CROs, staffing partners and contingent talent. 
• Develop classification reviews, joint-employer risk mitigation, pay practices, timekeeping and labs/field roles scheduling. 
• Advise on overtime classification for field based clinical trial monitors, vendor oversight, agreements, indemnities, salary thresholds and independent contracting issues. 
• Defend wage and hour litigation, including cases involving the FLSA’s administrative and outside sales exemptions.

Wage and Hour

• Conduct vulnerability assessments, policy audits, campaign communications and CBA administration to manage elevated organizing activity across R&D, manufacturing and distribution sites. 
• Train supervisors on lawful communications and develop campaign readiness plans to preserve operational flexibility.

Labor Relations

• Advise on international issues such as cross-border RIFs, foreign executive contracts, cross-border remote work, and setting up new international operations.
• With the co-leader of our International Employment practice who formerly served in-house at a major pharmaceutical company, we help employers manage multicountry R&D, trials and field teams by coordinating employment compliance, harmonizing global policies and structuring mobility programs for R&D talent moving between international and U.S. sites.

Immigration | International Employment

• Conduct pay equity audits for both rapidly scaling post IPO companies and established corporations to meet transparency mandates. 
• Assist with preventive measures such as company-wide audits to ensure consistent implementation of pay and promotion policies.

Pay Equity

• Counsel on employment agreements, employee raiding claims, unfair competition claims and other employment-related business torts. 
• Draft covenant strategy by jurisdiction, noncompete alternatives, policy updates and litigation readiness.

Restrictive Covenants, Trade Secrets and Unfair Competition

• Help manage periodic reductions due to portfolio reprioritization, trial results and funding cycles.
• Develop structured, defensible RIF playbooks, selection criteria and disparate impact analyses, WARN mapping and related compliance obligations and documentation, and manager training.

Workforce Restructuring

Workplace Analytics and Preventative Strategies

• Advise on OSHA workplace inspections, required workplace safety plans (such as hazardous materials communications and other lab hazard communications) and updated OSHA standards. 
• Develop OSHA compliant protocols for labs, cleanrooms, manufacturing lines, cleanrooms and related environments.

Workplace Safety and Health