The Chicago area is an extremely mature and sophisticated labor-management milieu. Both labor and management frequently work together on many issues of mutual and joint concern. To say the least, representation of clients in this practice area involves considerable more depth than merely conduct under the National Labor Relations Act. Hogan Marren has represented labor organizations, Taft-Hartley Trust Funds, labor-management committees, and various other related entities with a variety of legal issues. Our attorneys have over 50 years of combined experience in the labor and employment field including, but not limited to, complex federal and state court litigation, alternative dispute resolution, grievances, arbitrations, unfair labor practice proceedings, area standards disputes, secondary boycotts, employee benefits issues, drug and alcohol policies, sexual harassment policies, union elections, collective bargaining, jurisdictional disputes, wage claims, organizing campaigns, joint labor management committees, project labor agreements and promoting positive and productive labor relations. Due to the breadth of our unique experience in this industry, we are able to provide our clients with well-informed perspectives, legally well-grounded but with a business perspective, to produce quality representation at highly competitive rates. We have represented our clients' interests before the National Labor Relations Board, the Illinois Labor Relations Board, Joint Arbitration Boards and other administrative agencies, including, but not limited to the U.S. Department of Labor, Illinois Department of Labor, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Illinois Human Rights Commission.
Our firm goes to the heart of labor and employment law to focus on
employee and employer relations. As part of our commitment to a productive
and positive workforce, we work with clients to develop strategies aimed
at minimizing legal costs, while promoting a highly effective workplace
and business. Whether our attorneys are developing sexual harassment
policies or employee handbooks, or simply providing training seminars
to the client's employees, we understand how critical it is for both
management and employees to be educated on the particular points related
to the state and federal laws affecting employees in the workplace.
These laws include, but are not limited to, the Fair Labor Standards
Act and its state law counterpart, the Davis-Bacon Act and its state
law Prevailing Wage Act, the Miller Act, the Service Contract Act, the
Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment
Act, Title VII, the Illinois Human Rights Act, and the Wage Payment
and Collection Act, just to name a few statutory and regulatory concerns.
