Employment Counseling & Litigation

Sullivan & Worcester helps employers comply with their legal requirements and create a positive working environment. Our proactive employment counseling helps companies develop effective policies to deal with allegations of employment discrimination and sexual harassment, implement employee discipline and discharge procedures, draft employment policies and employee handbooks, prepare executive contracts, and conduct on-site employment law training for managers and employees. When necessary, we litigate non-competition cases and all other types of employment-related cases in state and federal courts.

Representative Client Work

Helped a public company make a complete review and reclassification of its workforce under the revised FLSA regulations
Saved a dairy company $1 million in back pay by successfully arguing to the Department of Labor that certain employees were exempt from overtime requirements
Worked with a Fortune 500 company to draft 13 affirmative action plans under revised regulations
Provided company-wide sexual harassment training to a mutual fund company
Established the enforceability of a non-competition covenant against a portfolio manager of an investment management company —an industry first