Practical Employment Counsel for Businesses
Fidlon Legal serves businesses and owners as employment counsel, providing advice on day-to-day workplace issues as well as representation in disputes. The firm helps employers build legally compliant practices, address employee relations problems before they become lawsuits, and respond effectively when a charge, investigation, or claim has already been filed.
Representative Employer Services
- Wage/hour and Fair Labor Standards Act compliance, including pay plans and worker classification
- Employee relations, discipline, performance management, and termination decisions
- Employment discrimination, harassment, FMLA, and ADA compliance
- Defense of employment litigation, including individual and class/collective actions
- EEOC, Department of Labor, NLRB, OFCCP, OSHA, and other administrative matters
- Severance agreements, reductions in force, and separation strategy
- Non-compete, non-solicitation, confidentiality, and trade-secret disputes
- Employee handbooks, workplace policies, employment agreements, compensation arrangements, and restrictive covenants
- Unemployment appeal hearings, internal investigations, mediation, and arbitration
Compliance and Litigation Avoidance
Sound human-resources practices are particularly important as a workforce grows and more federal and state employment laws apply. Consistent policies, careful documentation, appropriate investigations, and defensible decision-making can materially reduce the risk that legitimate business actions will later be characterized as discrimination or retaliation.
Wage-and-hour compliance also deserves close attention. Misclassification of workers or exempt employees, incorrect overtime calculations, and compensation practices that omit amounts from the regular rate can create substantial exposure because FLSA claims may involve multiple employees, liquidated damages, and attorneys' fees.
Agreements and Workplace Documentation
The firm routinely drafts and negotiates employment agreements, executive compensation arrangements, stock-award terms, handbooks, severance agreements, non-disclosure agreements, non-competes, non-solicitation provisions, and related policies. Advice is tailored to the employer's business model rather than treated as a one-size-fits-all compliance exercise.
Fidlon Legal's employer practice is designed to provide both immediate problem-solving and longer-term risk management, with an emphasis on understanding the company's operations and practical objectives.