PRACTICE AREAS
Employment Law
Farbstein & Blackman has decades of experience in the full range of employment litigation and counseling, including emerging trends in wage and hour, discrimination, harassment, and unfair competition.
Litigation Services
• Wrongful termination, including public policy violations
• Wage and hour claims (including individual and class action claims regarding compensation, meal and rest breaks, PAGA, and related remedies)
• Discrimination (state and federal)
• Retaliation and whistleblower claims
• Leave-related litigation, including under FMLA, CFRA, disability and others
• Unfair Competition, including recruiting, trade secrets and related claims
• Responses to EEOC and DFEH investigations
• Workers’ compensation retaliation claims under Labor Code Section 132a
• Employment tort claims, including privacy, interference and defamation
• Employment contract claims, including fraudulent inducement
• Mediation and Arbitration
• Administrative proceedings (Labor Commissioner, EDD, DFEH, EEOC, DOL)
• Labor relations and management
Counseling and advice
• Risk management
• Employment best practices (contracts, NDAs, policies, handbooks, forms, processes)
• Pre-termination counseling
• Severance negotiations
• Leave compliance (pregnancy, disability, FMLA/CFRA, other statutory and personal leaves)
• Workplace investigations
• Executive contracts and compensation
• Audits of payroll and timekeeping practices
• Disability accommodation and compliance
• Worker misclassification (exempt v. nonexempt)
• Independent contractor analysis
• Social media policies
• Presentations and trainings, including AB 1825 Sexual harassment training
• Employee relations