EMC² provides employment legal services to companies on a wide array of matters, including:

Hiring

• Hiring and recruiting practices, including background checks, applications, offer letters, job descriptions,
  
• Executive compensation and employment agreements
  
• Proper classification of exempt/nonexempt employees and independent contractor arrangements
  
• Recordkeeping and required filings

Policy Matters

• Creation and implementation of employee handbooks
  
• Discrimination and harassment policies
  
• Leave policies
  
• Proprietary information and related trade secret policies
  
• Grievance and disciplinary procedures
  
• Housekeeping matters, including vacation/PTO, and payroll practices
  
• Employment law compliance audits

Employee Relations

• Evaluations and probationary periods
  
• Proprietary information protection
  
• Leave requests and extensions
  
• Performance problems, corrective actions, and disciplinary procedures
  
• Workplace disputes and resolutions
  
• Handling and investigation of discrimination and harassment claims and workplace violence issues

Conclusion of the Employment Relationship

• Termination considerations, decisions, and risk assessment
  
• Severance packages and negotiations
  
• Reductions in force

Disputes

• Investigation, advice, negotiation, mediation and resolution of claims, including discrimination, harassment, wage and hour disputes, employee classification, and trade secret misappropriation
  
• Representation before state and federal agencies, including EEOC, DFEH, DLSE, EDD, OSHA and Department of Labor

• Conduct independent workplace investigations into issues of discrimination, harassment and workplace misconduct
  
• Conduct training sessions on managing within the law, discrimination and harassment prevention and intellectual property employment issues

EMC² advises individuals in the following areas:

Employment and Severance Agreements

• Evaluation and drafting of term sheets
  
• Analyzing and understanding agreements and entitlements
  
• Negotiating and drafting agreements

• Supplemental employment counseling services to other law firms and their clients
  
• Serve as individual counsel to executives and board members in the event of law firm conflicts of interest