No matter the size or nature of a company's workforce, labor and employment issues are critically important to ongoing success. Tonkon Torp's relationship-based approach helps us provide practical solutions to labor and employment problems for a diverse group of Pacific Northwest employers. We help our clients promote positive employee relations, protect competitive positions, deal with union activity, and defend employment litigation.

Counseling

Working with our clients, we identify potential problem areas, develop appropriate policies and procedures, and train management and employees to prevent costly disputes. We help our clients comply with local, state and federal employment laws and minimize exposure to litigation.

Our counseling and training programs encompass:
  • Development of and compliance with policies covering harassment, discrimination, drug and alcohol use
  • Employee handbooks
  • Compliance with state and federal leave requirements
  • Employment application, hiring, evaluation and discharge procedures
  • Wage and hour practices
  • Worker's compensation matters, including discrimination and discharge
  • Plant closures, downsizing and layoffs, including WARN compliance
  • Prevention of workplace theft and violence
  • Employment contracts, executive compensation and employee benefits
  • Non-compete and nondisclosure agreements

Litigation

When workplace disputes escalate, Tonkon Torp assists in resolving the dispute. Sometimes, the most appropriate action is settling disputes out of court through negotiation, mediation and arbitration. Other times, we have successfully represented our clients at trial and on appeal.

We defend employment claims before all levels of federal, state and administrative tribunals. A sample of the types of cases include:
  • Wage and hour class action claims
  • Harassment and discrimination
  • Disability discrimination and accommodation
  • Family and Medical Leave claims
  • Wrongful termination and related tort and contract claims
  • Medical marijuana
  • Employment contracts
  • Pension and employee benefits
  • Misappropriation of trade secrets and enforcement of non-competition agreements

Labor Relations

Whether the goal is to keep unions out of your plant or work successfully with a unionized workforce, Tonkon Torp can help.

Our attorneys represent employers in Taft-Hartley Act matters and before the National Labor Relations Board. We assist clients with:
  • Union organizing campaigns
  • Representation elections
  • Unfair labor practice actions
  • Strikes and injunctions
  • Grievance and interest arbitration
  • Collective bargaining
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