Labor & Employment Law
Vandeventer Black’s Labor & Employment team represents a wide variety of organizations and businesses in labor and employment law and litigation matters, including discrimination claims, union avoidance, NLRB charges, wrongful discharge, breach of contract suits, trade secret/unfair competition suits, wage and hour, employee benefits, workers’ compensation defense, immigration, and employee relations counseling and training. We routinely draft employment contracts and employee handbooks, negotiate and implement sensitive terminations, and provide clients with advice and training in employment-related areas. We also represent our management clients in collective bargaining negotiations, labor arbitration and related litigation. We conduct annual seminars for our clients and other interested parties to review recent legislative and case law developments.
Our Labor and Employment attorneys regularly represent clients in state and federal courts, as well as in administrative forums, and before arbitrators and mediators.
Our Workers’ Compensation Defense team works with mutual associations, insurance carriers, their insureds and self-insured businesses defending claims filed under the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Act and the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act. We also work with risk managers, human resource professionals and executives on preventive strategies.
The Immigration Law group advises companies and individuals on all aspects of immigration strategy for temporary employment and permanent residence options in the United States. We also help employers comply with the employer provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and counsel employers on the implementation of the I-9 form and avoiding civil and criminal fines and penalties.
Vandeventer Black’s Employee Benefits attorneys handle a variety of qualified plan, exempt organization and ERISA matters. We serve as counsel to plans providing income, retirement, hospitalization and other benefits. The Firm’s active employee benefits and executive compensation practice is increasingly focused on the structuring of non-qualified arrangements, such as phantom stock, “rabbi” trust arrangements and other incentive or bonus plans in order to supplement or replace traditional vehicles such as qualified plans and ESOPs.
Labor & Employment Law Areas
Discrimination
Union Avoidance
Collective Bargaining
Wrongful Discharge
Benefits
Wage & Hour
Handbooks & Policies
Employment Agreements
Drug Testing
Workers’ Compensation Defense
Immigration
OSHA/VOSH
Trade Secrets
Non-Compete Agreements & Litigation
Arbitration & Mediation
Unfair Labor Practice Defense
Labor & Employment Law Group
Labor & Employment Law Publications
>> Labor & Employment Law Review & Update - October 17, 2007
>> Tatoos Usually Not Taboo In The Workplace (features attorney Dean T. Buckius) – Inside Business by Lakeshia Artis, September 4, 2006 http://www.insidebiz.com/output.cfm?ID=4397712
>> Media Ignores Need for White Collar Workers August 21, 2006 http://www.insidebiz.com/output.cfm?ID=4383030
>> Food for Thought Can Help – employee training July 31, 2006 Inside Business http://www.insidebiz.com/output.cfm?ID=4357753
>> Lowering The Bar On Employee Retaliation Claims by Heather M. Kofron, November 21,2006
>> The H1-B Cap And Immigration Reform by Mara S. Mijal November 14, 2006
>> Preventing Workers' Compensation Fraud by Lisa L. Thatch, May 29,2006
>> Comprehensive Immigration Reform? by Arthur Serratelli, May 22, 2006
>> Using Pre-Injury Physical Demands Analysis Forms To Determine Whether An Employee Can Return To Full Duty Work by Brian Sykes, May 15, 2006
>> Recent Developments In The Employment-Based Green Card Process by Mara S. Mijal, March 27, 2006
>> Employers Must Shape Up When Employees Ship Out by Arlene F. Klinedinst, February 9,2006
>> Watch Out For Sticky Fingers by Jacqueline Ford, January 4, 2006