Employment Law Counseling

Arizmendi & Sanfilippo provides legal services in two principal areas: counseling and litigation.  In the area of corporate counseling, we work closely with our clients in their day to day management of their human resources.  Our goal is to ensure that, when they take decisions that affect their employees, our clients are well informed as to the applicable employment laws and regulations and any pertinent legal risks.  Beyond providing the legal background and necessary compliance tools, we also strive to assist our clients in making decisions that are compatible with a healthy management of their human resources.

Our experience in this area includes:

• Design and review of personnel policies, including employee handbooks, anti-harassment and equal employment opportunity policies, arbitration procedures, drug testing programs and codes of business conduct
  
  
• Design and review of employment related engagements, including employment contracts, independent contractor arrangements, probation and temporary agreements and severance packages
  
  
• Integration of equal employment opportunity principles in the taking of employment decisions
  
  
• Application of the concept of progressive discipline to avoid terminations, when possible, and to otherwise develop just cause for termination under local law
  
  
• Design strategies to manage the employee with disabilities or who needs or asks for reasonable accommodation
  
  
• Management and coordination of family and medical leaves required by federal and local laws and voluntary employer leave programs, including employment reservation and reinstatement rights
  
  
• Compliance with mandatory employee benefits, including paid vacation and sick leave, statutory meal period, lactation and milk expression breaks for breastfeeding mothers, preferences for military and disabled employees, minimum year end bonus and COBRA, among others