Labor and Employment

Amid the vast array of challenges facing today’s employers, labor and employment claims number among the most potent threats to productivity, profitability, and even company viability. Faced with corporate campaigns waged by labor unions, lawsuits originating from the Private Attorneys General Act, and wage and hour class actions, today’s businesses require innovative strategies to keep the playing field level. For more than 50 years, O’Melveny’s labor and employment lawyers have established and honed a strong reputation for helping companies cope in the face of changing business conditions around the country and across industries.

O’Melveny is dedicated to building an effective and collaborative working relationship with your company when you need advice and guidance you can trust, from lawyers who understand your organization and industry, as well as the risks and opportunities you face on a daily basis. By working closely with our class action, white collar, and intellectual property colleagues, we can respond quickly and efficiently to large-scale workforce crises, including cases dealing with unlawful competition, trade secret misappropriation, covenants not to compete, and employee raiding.

Our labor and employment lawyers are recognized for handling cases that make national headlines. For example, our long-standing experience in the airline industry led US Airways to call on us for help in its effort to obtain nearly $1 billion in annual labor and benefits cost-savings in proceedings before the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. This case was the first time in the history of the airline industry that a bankruptcy court rejected a collective bargaining agreement under Section 1113 of the Bankruptcy Code.

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