Labor & Employment
We help clients address complex labor and employment issues, from negotiating executive contracts to managing employee discipline, misconduct, and dismissals, while providing legal representation in hearings and court.
Park District Labor & Employment
Our attorneys defend governmental bodies before the Illinois Human Rights Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and in the state and federal courts when employees have asserted various forms of discrimination as the reason for adverse employment actions.
We provide a full range of services throughout every stage of administrative proceedings: pre-hearing conference, trial preparation, hearing, administrative review, and appeals. Our attorneys also have extensive experience before administrative agencies such as the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation and the Illinois Department of Employment Security.
Our attorneys advise on the full spectrum of legal issues
Our attorneys have extensive experience before administrative agencies.
We frequently draft and update personnel policies and handbooks dealing with statutory mandates contained in laws such as the Fair Labor Standards Act, Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the recent Cook County Paid Leave for All Ordinance. We counsel our clients on compliance with state and federal law relating to employee leave under the ADA, FMLA, and other statutes providing for overlapping leave rights and all other personnel-related legal compliance matters.
We aggressively defend our clients in:
- Federal Courts
- State Courts
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Illinois Department of Human Rights
At Robbins Schwartz our attorneys provide practical and cost effective representation to both public and private sector employers in labor and personnel matters.
Our attorneys counsel employers in all aspects of the employment relationship including collective bargaining, hiring and termination decisions, employee discipline and reductions-in-force, employee leave and disability accommodation requests and investigations of employee misconduct and harassment complaints. Robbins Schwartz attorneys also represent employers in grievances, arbitrations, unfair labor practices charges and unlawful discrimination complaints and lawsuits. We aggressively defend our clients in federal and state courts and before various administrative bodies including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Illinois Department of Human Rights.
Preventative Counseling
In keeping with our philosophy of preventive counseling, our attorneys develop personnel policies and procedures for complying with state and federal laws anti-discrimination laws, including the Illinois Human Rights Act, Family and Medical Leave Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act. Our attorneys are asked to speak on a wide array of employment topics before both state and national organizations. Robbins Schwartz attorneys also provide on-site training and in-service programs tailored to the needs and requests of individual clients.
At the bargaining table, Robbins Schwartz attorneys work closely with management to achieve its collective bargaining goals while striving to foster positive labor relations.
Our attorneys have negotiated hundreds of contracts and are veterans in traditional and alternative mutual gains bargaining formats. "Wrap up" is a critical phase of any collective bargaining and our attorneys ensure that a contract's final language spells out the agreement in clear terms to avoid unnecessary disputes and grievances.
Areas of Specialty
- Collective Bargaining
- Employee Discipline
- Employer Liability
- Employer Rights
- Employment Arbitration
- Employment Breach of Contract
- Employment Contracts
- Employment Defense
- Employment Discrimination
- Employment Law
- Employment Litigation
- Equal Employment Opportunity Law
- Harassment
- Human Resources Law
- Labor Negotiations
