Venable represents a large number of construction contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, developers, and trade associations in all aspects of labor and employment law. Venable's extensive experience in this area includes advising and representing our construction industry clients before the National Labor Relations Board, and union negotiations, organizing, strikes, picketing, project agreements, and corporate campaigns. Venable also counsels and litigates on behalf of construction clients dealing with compliance under prevailing wage laws such as the Davis-Bacon Act, as well as the Fair Labor Standards Act's overtime and work hours standards, including class action defense.
Venable regularly handles all aspects of workplace hiring and firing in the construction industry, with special experience in salting, immigration I-9 compliance, wrongful discharge, employment discrimination and harassment claims, affirmative action, employee handbooks, non-competes, trade secrets, and OSHA compliance. Finally, Venable attorneys advise and defend construction employers in their compliance with employee benefits laws such as ERISA, including defense of withdrawal liability claims. Clients tell Chambers and Partners that "Venable has a very credible core of labor and employment lawyers."
As part of our service to construction industry clients, Venable provides on-site training on a range of labor and employment issues facing construction managers. We have also produced a range of helpful guides, manuals, and articles on labor and employment issues for the construction industry, including:
- Operating a Dual Shop
- Coping With COMET
- Open Competition vs. Union-Only Construction
- Compliance Guide to the ADA
- How to Comply With the Davis-Bacon Act
- Model Employee Handbook
Practice Focus
- Arbitrations
- Audits
- Class actions
- Collective bargaining
- Diversity / affirmative action
- EEO / harassment claims
- Employee benefits
- Employment agreements
- Employment disputes
- ERISA compliance
- Financial services wage compliance
- Government contracts
- Healthcare cost reduction
- Intellectual property litigation
- Immigration sanctions
- Labor cost reductions in mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy, and healthcare
- Litigation
- NLRB, union campaigns, and ULPs
- OSHA counseling and litigation
- Personnel policies
- Trade secrets / non-competes
- Wage and overtime claims
- WARN Act compliance
- Whistleblower
Industry Focus
- California
- Colleges and universities
- Construction
- Energy
- Entertainment / media
- Financial services
- Government contracting
- Healthcare
- Hospitality
- Independent schools
- Information technology
- Manufacturing
- Nonprofits / trade associations
- Public employers
- Retail
- Telecommunications
- Transportation