“Treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.”
— Stephen Covey
EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS
Litigation and Union Avoidance
We work with employers to create and oversee the on-going implementation of best practice employment policies and procedures from selection to termination. The goal is to create unique workplace environments that empower employees and are litigation and union averse.
OPENING A NEW BUSINESS:
Your company is about to open a new restaurant in an area where many of your competitors are unionized. It is also an area which has witnessed a large volume of employment litigation. You want someone to review and, if necessary, revise your selection procedures and employment policies so that you select employees who look to you rather than to third parties to resolve their employment issues and who will help you to make your new restaurant the employer of choice in the area. WE CAN HELP YOU!
Employment Training
We create and present training programs related to legal compliance (CA and Federal) and best practices for HR departments in dealing with workplace issues including selection and evaluation. Each of our training programs is tailored to address particular problems unique to that client.
CREATING A POSITIVE WORKING ENVIRONMENT:
You want to keep abreast of significant legal developments that impact your company. You need a trainer who is informative and entertaining and who incorporates in his presentation practical advice gleaned from decades of experience representing companies like yours. WE CAN HELP YOU!
Workplace Investigations
We conduct investigations into sensitive workplace issues like sexual harassment, embezzlement, and industrial accidents. Many of these matters are referred to us by law firms.
SEXUAL HARASSMENT:
You need an experienced investigator to interview employees and third parties in a difficult sexual harassment case so that the matter will either be settled for a reasonable sum or result in a defense verdict if litigation can’t be avoided. WE CAN HELP YOU!
Representation of Co-Defendants (California and Federal Courts)
We represent individual managers and supervisors in litigation matters where the law firm representing the corporate defendant has concluded that separate representation is advisable.
CONFLICT ISSUES:
You are a partner in a law firm representing a corporate client that has been sued by a former employee in California Superior Court for sexual harassment. Also named in the suit is the client’s Director of Finance. You believe there is a potential conflict between your client and the individual defendant. You need an experienced lawyer to represent the individual defendant, but you want someone who is not affiliated with a competing firm. WE CAN HELP YOU!
Hawaii
We have substantial experience representing employers in Hawaii both with respect to union-related matters and the creation of personnel policies and procedures reflective of the Hawaiian culture.
DOING BUSINESS IN HAWAII:
You are the General Manager of a hotel in Texas. Your employer is a hotel management company that operates hotels in several states and has just acquired its first management contract in Hawaii. You are about to be transferred to manage the new property, but you have never lived or worked in Hawaii. You need an advisor who can help you learn how to be successful in Hawaii. WE CAN HELP YOU!
Hospitality
We have substantial experience dealing with employment issues unique to the Hospitality industry including due diligence on behalf of both buyers and sellers of hospitality properties, union matters and HR best practices.
BUYING A HOTEL:
You are an accountant. One of your best clients owns a chain of hotels all of which are non-union. The client wants to buy a unionized hotel but is concerned that doing so will require it to assume the existing union contract and result in the unionization of its other hotels. The client’s corporate firm has no one with any experience in the purchase and sale of unionized hotels and so has asked for your advice. WE CAN HELP YOU!
HR Mentoring
We provide mentoring services to HR Directors and other management personnel that are tailored to the specific needs of the client and provide the benefit of decades of experience with HR matters.
MENTORSHIP:
Your new Human Resources Director shows much promise but has no experience running an HR department. You are looking for someone to mentor her and to serve as a resource for her in handling the full gamut of HR issues. WE CAN HELP YOU!