An Introduction To The Labor And Employment Relations Review Services Of
The Law Offices of
Stuart H. Brody, Esq.

What Your Business
Stands To Gain From An
Employment Relations Review

Few businesses have escaped the fallout from the recent explosion of employment litigation: sexual harassment, disability discrimination, wrongful termination, negligent hiring and drug testing are just a few areas of vulnerability. No employment related service is more important than steering your business through the legal minefield that is today's workplace. Preventive measures are the key.

How The Law Office of Stuart H. Brody, Esq. Can Help

Our goal is to help you achieve your business objectives while minimizing the risk of employment litigation and governmental intrusion. To this end, our Labor and Employment Group has designed a highly successful and economical program to review the critical features of your employment practices.

First, we meet with your personnel managers to determine the compliance areas in which they believe our assistance would be most helpful.

Next, we review all relevant practices and procedures in the identified areas.

Finally, if we discover employment practices that can be modified and improved, we will offer practical, cost effective alternatives.

The Labor And Employment
Relations Review

         I. Pre-Employment Screening and Hiring

                 The employment application
                 Interview procedures
                 Pre-employment testing
                 Resume fraud and employer liability for negligent hiring
                Advantages and disadvantages of employment agreements
                 immigration and other legally mandated information gathering
                 Making the job offer

II. Ongoing Employee Evaluation and Testing

                  Performance appraisals
                  Effective rule implementation
                  Maintaining progressive discipline procedures that encourage employee improvement 
                  Employee testing: drug tests, polygraph exams and employee searches
                  Soliciting employee input

III. Benefits Administration and Legal Compliance

      Review of personnel manual and employee handbook
      Nondiscriminatory implementation of salary structures and benefit plans
      Overtime requirements and their exceptions
      Tax liability for independent contractors
      Review of summary plan descriptions for benefit plans
      Record keeping requirements and preparedness for governmental audits
      Reasonable accommodation of disabilities
      Sexual harassment policy
      Review of labor agreements and rights under the National Labor Relations Act
      Affirmative action compliance (federal contractors)
      No smoking and other state and local regulations
      Posting of official notices

            IV. Termination

    Workforce reductions
    Severance arrangements and benefits continuation
    References and post-termination inquiries
    Termination interviews
    Notice of termination

Post-Review Follow Up
We encourage the participation of your management in the review. This will enhance your in-house capability to respond to the burgeoning arena of employment issues with a minimum of ongoing professional consultation.

As part of our review, we will provide you with checklists to facilitate avoidance of potential pit-falls in many of the examined areas, such as:
 Guidelines for conducting interviews

 Records retention requirements

 Checklist of susceptibility to union organization
 Summaries of  federal, state and local laws applicable to your business
As a further part of our program, we provide model documents, such as:

 Employment applications

 Personnel policies

 Employee handbook provisions and disclaimers
 Drug testing policy
 Sexual harassment policy
 Neutral references

Contact Our Labor And
Employment Group For More
Information

We invite you to call Stuart H. Brody  to discuss the most useful and cost effective program for a review of your increasingly crucial employment relations.