Preventive Practices

MBBP's employment lawyers represent employers that range in size from small technology start-ups to Fortune 1000 companies across a wide spectrum of industries, including software, medical devices, professional services, financial services, construction, manufacturing, retail, non-profit and healthcare. Some recent highlights of our preventive practices experience include:

• Auditing the complete employment practices of a national manufacturer
• Conducting FLSA compliance review for a high-tech employer
• Training HR staff of national high-tech company on employment law compliance
• Conducting sexual harassment and supervisory skills training for a national insurer
• Conducting I-9 audit for a Boston-area college
• Successfully advising employers in hundreds of employee discharges and workforce reduction without resulting litigation
• Training clients on hiring, workplace investigations, employee discharges and absenteeism issues, and more.

Advice and counseling. We advise clients on a full range of employment issues including:

• executive employment agreements
• hiring and retention practices
• discipline and discharge
• sexual harassment
• wage-hour
• leaves of absence
• workplace privacy
• drug-testing
• non-competition
• plant closings
• separation agreements.

Personnel policies and practices. We work with clients to implement best practices in employment policies and procedures including areas such as:

• harassment prevention
• leaves of absence
• workplace conduct
• employee handbooks.

Critical employment agreements. We assist clients (often in collaboration with our corporate and IP lawyers) in drafting and reviewing:

• offer letters
• employment agreements
• independent contractor agreements
• nondisclosure, noncompetition, nonsolicitation agreements
• separation agreements
• retention agreements.

Alternative dispute resolution (ADR). We help clients design and implement dispute resolution systems to manage and resolve employment disputes in a prompt and cost-effective manner. We also advise and represent employers in all forms of ADR.

Employment audits. We work with clients to assess and evaluate their employment policies and practices such as:

• recruitment, interviewing and reference checks
• performance evaluations and discipline
• investigations, promotions, demotions and transfers
• pay practices
• substance abuse testing
• personnel records inspection
• record retention
• email and internet use
• terminations and layoffs.

Training. We offer discrimination and harassment prevention training, management skills training, and various custom-designed training programs for specific client needs.