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.

To discuss your company's specific employment needs, and how our experienced attorneys might meet them more efficiently and responsively, please contact Bob Shea or Mark Burak.