We'll help keep your workplace working.
Sound advice for human management.
The workplace is fraught with potential legal problems. Employers are responsible for complying with an ever-changing set of rules that frequently defy common business sense. If the employer fails to comply with its obligations, productivity and morale can suffer, and costly litigation can ensue. Employers need sound advice to avoid these perils.
Solutions-based thinking.
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney's provides
practical assistance to managers and in-house counsel
regarding the wide range of day-to-day employment issues they face and decisions they must make. The topics include:
- Job duties and essential functions
- Hiring decisions
- Background checks
- Medical examinations
- Employee terminations
- Reductions in force
- Release agreements
- Americans with Disabilities Act and Family and Medical Leave Act compliance
- Military leave
- Workers' compensation
- Handbooks
- Drug and alcohol policies and testing
- Harassment policies and investigations
- Federal contractor compliance
- Workplace violence
- Pay practices
- Supervisor training
- Preventing issues before they arise
Because we believe that
the best way to deal with problems is to prevent them, we counsel clients on policy and handbook design and implementation. We also provide extensive training on employment issues. National and state bar associations, training providers and clients frequently ask our lawyers to train their lawyers, senior executives, lower level supervisors and employees regarding strategy and compliance issues.