In recent years, labor and employment disputes have grown larger, more complex and far more likely to pose a significant threat to an employer’s core business interests. The plaintiffs’ bar has dramatically increased its use of high-stakes class, collective, and mass actions to cover a wide spectrum of labor and employment, wage and hour, and public accessibility claims; federal and state agencies are focusing on claims of systemic discrimination and substantially increasing their budgets to litigate pattern or practice cases; and legislators continue to debate laws involving data privacy, employees’ rights to form unions, the use of credit and criminal background checks in the hiring process and other emerging issues. Muddying the waters further, judicial decisions across the country are often in direct conflict, making it difficult for employers to determine appropriate “safe harbor” policies and practices for their workforces.
The experienced lawyers of Hunton Andrews Kurth’s national labor and employment team understand the many challenges facing employers today. We have earned deserved reputations as “go to” lawyers for major employment, wage and hour, labor relations and public accessibility cases across the nation. Our lawyers have extensive experience defending class, collective, and mass actions, and have the distinction of being included in a select group of attorneys in the country who have tried complex representative proof cases to jury verdicts. We have successfully litigated thousands of high-profile, high-risk matters in federal and state courts, in hearings before federal and state law enforcement agencies, and in mediations and arbitrations. We have maintained a traditional labor practice over the last five decades and today our vast experience in assisting our clients with managing and terminating anti-corporate campaigns is unmatched.
Backed by the extensive resources of a longstanding global law firm with exceptional credentials, we have national practices that cover the entire spectrum of the labor, employment and public accessibility fields and we lead teams that represent a large and diverse client base of major national employers in cases across the nation. We represent clients in virtually every form of traditional and emerging labor and employment dispute, and several of our current representations concern issues at the forefront of new employment class and collective litigation trends across the country. With our national resources, we also provide litigation counseling and docket management services that enable employers to identify risks early and take appropriate remedial action, thereby limiting their risks and exposure to—and the costs associated with—individual and class claims.
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The Labor and Employment practice group at Hunton Andrews Kurth has been named a Go-To Thought Leader in the field of employment law by the National Law Review. Hunton’s Employment law group received this award for their coverage of California COVID-19 paid sick leave legislation, which saw ongoing updates and changes throughout the year 2022. In particular, authors Emily Burkhardt Vicente and Shane A. Le Master, who authored “California Enacts COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave For 2022,” which has reached nearly 30,000 readers so far this year.