Employment & Labor Law

Jones & Keller has experience in most matters involving labor and employment workplace issues, pre-claims and claims. We represent employers in matters involving allegations of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, unpaid wages, wage misclassification, breach of employment contract, violations of restrictive covenants, unsafe work conditions, and violations of workplace policies. We defendant clients on claims or charges filed by employees under Title VII, the ADA, the ADEA, CADA, the NLRA, ,and other laws governing the workplace.

our services include:

Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation

Jones & Keller provides its clients with an integrated approach to the diverse employee benefits needs of its clients by combining expertise in traditional employee benefits and executive compensation with extensive experience in corporate tax planning, employment benefits litigation and insurance regulation and policy.

We assist our clients in all aspects of planning and implementation of incentive compensation programs, benefits plans, and tax qualified and non-qualified plans. We provide advice to employers on compensation and benefit plans for employees, as well as plans or arrangements for executives, directors and key personnel. We help our clients deal with increasingly complex benefits issues such as tax implications of deferred compensation (IRC §409A), “Golden Parachute” issues surrounding executive compensation in change-of-control transactions, design, amendment and termination of tax-qualified and non-qualified plans and incentive compensation plans for corporations and limited liability companies. We also assist start-ups and rapidly growing companies in designing compensation and stock incentive plans that help them recruit and retain key personnel and meet the demands of venture capitalists and mezzanine financiers.

We help boards of directors, compensation committees, management committees and outside accountants to craft executive compensation plans that meet the needs of executives, shareholders and outside directors. We also assist boards of directors in development of director compensation plans.

We help our clients to choose from a variety of compensation options, such as:

Incentive and performance compensation plans
Equity-based compensation programs
Phantom equity and profits-based compensation plans
Deferred compensation arrangements

We also advise clients involved in mergers and acquisitions regarding the interaction and integration of qualified plans of the various parties.

Employment Advice and Counsel

Jones & Keller helps prevent liability by making recommendations and preparing transitional documents for terminations, resignations, reductions-in-force, layoffs, executive hiring and terminations, handbooks and policies; and restrictive covenants, including non-competes, non-solicitation, and trade secret protection. We help our clients establish and implement programs and policies to manage the risk of employment actions, develop compensation plans to meet business objectives, and manage outsource and independent contractor relationships. Jones & Keller lawyers have extensive hands-on knowledge of employment issues facing businesses and public sector clients today, derived from their experience in dealing with day-to-day employment issues as general counsel and executive officers of various businesses.

Employment & Labor Law

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