Employment Law: Claim Defense

Despite the best precautionary measures, not every employment dispute can be avoided. When an employer client is faced with an employment claim, Fox, O'Neill & Shannon, S.C. will provide the client with the best and most practical legal representation

The firm has extensive experience in defending against employment claims through negotiation, arbitration, mediation, administrative and judicial forums. The firm has defended employers in discrimination, wrongful discharge, wage and hour, overtime, recordkeeping, OSHA, harassment, reasonable accommodation and plant closing disputes.

Examples of the firm's services include:

• Defending employers from claims for sexual harassment, discrimination (whether age, race, disability, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, religion or other protected classes), breach of contract, civil rights violations, wrongful termination and wage and hour violations.
• Defending employers against employee grievances, including those arising out of specific employment contracts, in state and federal courts and in mediation
• Assisting employers in responding to EEOC and state discrimination complaints
• Negotiating with employees' attorneys to resolve discrimination, wrongful termination, harassment, wage and hour and other employee related claims
• Representing employers at unemployment compensation hearings
• Protecting employers’ interests as against employees’ improper use of trade secrets or trade names or improper interference with employers’ contracts or business relations
• Upholding covenants not to compete benefitting employer clients and voiding covenants not to compete affecting employees our clients wish to hire
• Defending against and negotiating with OSHA in regard to workplace complaints
• Advising clients under the ADA and state disability laws, and working through reasonable accommodation requirements