Mackenzie Hughes attorneys practicing within the Labor & Employment area include:
Nicole Allen Cerrito
Joseph C. Dole
Christian P. Jones
Jaqueline B. Jones
Ramon E. Rivera
Our labor and employment attorneys represent public and private
employers alike, including some of the region's largest and most
influential companies. The employers rely upon our labor lawyers
because of our extensive experience counseling clients through
all aspects of the employment relationship, including labor-management
relations, and our record of success in employment litigation.
Perhaps equally important, we also take special pride in our ability
to counsel employers on how to avoid the costs, burdens and distraction
of litigation altogether.
Our experience includes recruitment and hiring issues, union relations,
wage and hour regulations, counseling employers involved in union
organizational campaigns, statutory compliance (ADA, FLSA, FMLA,
NLRA, Title VII, and OSHA, among others), discrimination and harassment
issues, administrative hearings, and employment termination. We
have also earned an excellent reputation for successfully defending
employers in major (and frequently high-profile) employment litigation
in federal and state courts and before governmental agencies.
In addition, our attorneys frequently present workshops and author
articles on the wide range of legal issues that affect human resources
specialists.
Notable recent accomplishments include:
• Defending a prominent national company from multiple charges
of sexual harassment at a regional plant, and counseling the company
in enacting new procedures and practices to avoid future liability
exposure;
• Counseling a local municipality through intense collective
bargaining negotiations with four separate public employee unions;
• Winning outright dismissal of a wrongful discharge suit
seeking back pay and punitive damages from a large local not-for-profit
organization, then winning affirmance of the dismissal on appeal;
• Winning dismissal of unfair labor practices charges before
the National Labor Relations Board on behalf of a local employer
that hired the unionized employees of a predecessor firm;
• Successfully counseling a client in one of the largest
union organizational campaigns in the northern U.S.;
• Representing employers in labor-management relations with
unions and during organizational campaigns;
• Counseling a regional law-enforcement agency in the proper
legal procedure for disciplining and removing police officers
in a highly publicized, controversial case; and
• Winning dismissal of a "whistle-blower" retaliation suit
before the Occupational Health and Safety Administration on behalf
of a national employer with a regional presence in Central New
York.
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