Employment Law
Employee versus Employer Cases:
- Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) claims, which are suits brought by employees who accuse our clients of unpaid wages, overtime, or minimum wage violations
- Employment discrimination, civil rights, sexual harassment claims, and more
- The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cases
- Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) cases
- Unemployment compensation
- Employment and non-compete agreements for employees, including physicians and other doctors
- Employment contracts
- Collective bargaining and union prevention
- EEOC (federal Equal Employment Commission) investigations
- FMLA (Family and Medical Leave Act)
Because litigation is something clients want to avoid, we strive to create appropriate personnel procedures and provide training in hiring, promotion, discrimination sensitivity, progressive discipline, termination, documentation, and exit interviewing. This can help a company prevent costly and disruptive employment labor claims later.
Our Group publishes our Employment Law Update on a periodic basis to keep our clients abreast of new developments in labor and employment law as well as providing practical preventive tips. We also provide free client seminars on preventative measures to avoid liability.
Employer versus Employee:
Robbins Equitas is well-versed in the more traditional employment issues such as breach of contract, trade secrets, antitrust, unfair competition, non-compete agreements, wage and hour litigation, and tortious or intentional interference with business relations.
Employee Benefits:
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The Robbins Equitas employee benefits team represents a variety of clients on matters relating to qualified and non-qualified deferred compensation plans, including:
- Defined benefit plans, including cash balance plans;
- 401(k) plans;
- Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs);
- Profit-sharing plans, including cross-tested and age-weighted plans;
- Section 125 cafeteria plans, including medical reimbursement and dependent care assistance reimbursement plans;
- Self-insured medical and other welfare benefit plans, and the vehicles used for funding such obligations such as 401(h) retiree medical accounts in defined benefit plans and voluntary employees' beneficiary associations (VEBAs);
- Employee stock purchase plans (ESPPs).
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In the executive compensation arena, the Group has advised and prepared:
Employment agreements;
- Equity-based incentive plans including non-qualified stock options (NQSOs), incentive stock option plans (ISOs), stock appreciation rights (SARs), phantom stock, and restricted stock plans;
- Performance-based incentive plans including annual bonus, performance unit, and performance share plans;
- Benefit-related plans including non-qualified deferred compensation plans, excess benefit plans, supplemental executive retirement plans (SERPs), 457(f) plans, and executive split dollar and other carve out arrangements; and
- Funding arrangements such as rabbi trusts, corporate-owned life insurance (COLI), and other security arrangements.
Attorneys in the Employment Law Practice Group include:
To learn more about what you have read on The Florida Lawyer Website please contact Robbins Equitas and speak with our attorneys. Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater and Sarasota residents can contact our attorneys at (727) 822-8696 to make an appointment with our Florida offices.
