Stockman O’Connor provides practical, sophisticated, and cost-effective advice on all aspects of labor and employment issues to employers, employees, and labor unions. Our labor and employment attorneys represent major employers and unions in Connecticut as well as medical practices and other small and mid-sized businesses. Stockman O’Connor’s work on behalf of our clients includes:
- Litigating and advising clients on wrongful discharge, sexual harassment, and age, sex, race, and disability discrimination issues and cases;
- Litigating and advising clients on wage and hour and restrictive covenant disputes;
- Drafting handbook and policy manuals and covenants against competition;
- Evaluating client compliance with all state and federal labor and employment laws and regulations including, the NLRA, ADA, CFEPA, FMLA, ADEA, Title VII, HIPAA, ERISA, and the FLSA;
- Representing clients before government agencies including the CHRO and EEOC and representing clients in proceedings before the NLRB, OSHA, and DOL;
- Counseling clients on proper employee classification under wage and hour laws, hiring and firing, conducting effective workplace investigations, utilizing performance evaluations, and unemployment compensation issues; and
- Representing union clients in disputes under MERA before the Connecticut State Board of Mediation and Arbitration and in disciplinary and contract interpretation disputes, from the grievance stage through arbitration hearings.