IMMIGRATION AND VISA SERVICES The Jenkins Law Firm assists employers nationwide with employment-related immigration matters. Employing Non-U.S. Citizens in the United States Foreign nationals generally work in the United States under one of many temporary (or ‘nonimmigrant’) visas. Each visa category has unique and often complex eligibility criteria. Our attorneys work with employers to assess [...]
WORKPLACE VIOLENCE Workplace violence is one of the two leading causes of occupational fatality in the United States today. Threats of violence in the workplace are common. Violence can strike a workplace at any time, without warning, leaving tragedy, devastation and a shocked and demoralized workforce in its wake. The losses suffered by employers as [...]
PROBLEM PREVENTION Background Investigations | Conduct InvestigationsContracts | Drugs and Alcohol | Handbooks | Manuals | Policies The laws impacting your organization’s employment and labor practices have been increasing in number and becoming more complicated every year. The trend toward more regulation is expected to continue, as is the potential to incur costly litigation. The [...]
LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS Collective Bargaining | Elections | NLRB Negotiations | Organizing DrivesUnfair Labor Practices The Jenkins Law Firm has experience in representing and assisting employers in all aspects of labor-management relations law. Jenkins Law Firm’s representation of employers includes: Advising employers on lawfully maintaining a union-free workplace. Counseling employers during union organizing drives and campaigns. [...]
COMPENSATION Independent Contractor Status | Wage and Hour Wage and hour laws determine when, in what form, and how much employees must be paid. These statutes and regulations significantly affect every employment relationship and if not complied with can result in enormous liability for the employer. We help employers understand and ensure their compliance with [...]
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS COBRA | ERISA Employee benefit plans are regulated by a bewildering array of legal statutes, regulations, and procedures. As a result, managing employee benefits represents an ongoing, time-consuming, and often confusing responsibility for employers. The Jenkins Law Firm can support and advise employers in all aspects of employee benefit law including: Helping with [...]
WRONGFUL TERMINATION AND CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION Civil Rights Litigation | Litigation | Privacy Civil litigation is a significant part of Jenkins Law Firm’s practice. We represent clients before state and federal trial and appellate courts in lawsuits pertaining to various employment matters. Most commonly these suits involve wrongful discharge claims and civil rights litigation. Jenkins [...]
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY ADEA | ADA | Disabilities | Discrimination Harassment | Sex Harassment Many laws impose equal employment opportunity obligations upon employers. These laws affect all employment decisions: advertising for applicants, testing and interviewing, promoting or terminating employees. Jenkins Law Firm helps employers to understand their complex legal obligations in every employment area and [...]
The Jenkins Law Firm strives to make traveling the ‘mine field’ of Employment Law safer for small to mid-sized businesses. Contact us to learn more about the potential risks that face the human resource field everyday. Here are some links to give you more information on some of the issues that we work with employers [...]
The Jenkins Law Firm has worked with hundreds of small businesses to help them from everything from selecting a choice of entity, to franchising, to buying and selling businesses, to drafting customer, employee, and third party contracts, to reviewing franchise agreements and complex leases. Here are some links to give you more information on some [...]
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