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Labor & Employment Law

The Labor and Employment Law Practice Group represents employers in all aspects of labor, employment, employee benefits, and occupational injury law. Group lawyers routinely help clients address management issues as well as adversarial matters in industries such as manufacturing, education, health care, construction, and natural resources.

Representative Experience

Sought injunctive relief for international manufacturing company to abate union strike activity
Negotiated over fifty labor contracts in a variety of industries while maintaining sound relationships with a number of adversaries, including the Teamsters (IBT), Steelworkers (USWA), Electrical Workers (IBEW), Chemical Workers (ICWU), Paperworkers (PACE), Brick and Glass Workers (AFGWU), Service Employees (SEIU) and Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) unions, all without a work stoppage. Negotiated over fifty labor contracts in a variety of industries while maintaining sound relationships with a number of adversaries, including the Teamsters (IBT), Steelworkers (USWA), Electrical Workers (IBEW), Chemical Workers (ICWU), Paperworkers (PACE), Brick and Glass Workers (AFGWU), Service Employees (SEIU) and Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) unions, all without a work stoppage.
Resolved unfair labor practice charges and defended employers in numerous arbitration cases in a variety of industries
Assisted corporate clients with transfer of cases from litigation process into mediation/arbitration process in both union and non-union settings.
Provided diversity and harassment training for both management and non-management employees, including higher education employees, as a preventive measure, as well as post-investigatory.

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Law360 Litigation Almanac ranked Steptoe & Johnson 5th in the nation among full-service firms with the highest concentration of employment lawyers.

The firm's broad-based labor and employment practice includes the following:

Counseling of clients on multiple forced reductions impacting several thousand employees across the region
Handling multiple labor arbitrations with a variety of labor unions in multiple and diverse industries
Providing diversity training for employers in West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Tennessee
Coordinating strike preparations, including supervisory training, in multiple states
Representing dozens of clients in hundreds of employment-related lawsuits
Working with employers’ negotiating teams throughout the course of labor negotiations

Providing employer advice and counseling on FLSA, ADA, FMLA, WARN, COBRA, ERISA, and a host of state law issues

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Cokeley, Bryan R.

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Labor & Employment Law

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