EMPLOYEE BENEFITS & WORKPLACE MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE

Employee Benefits | Workplace Management | Legal Compliance

As a practicing Human Resources and Employee Benefits lawyer, Alison’s experience includes the following:

Workplace Management and Legal Compliance:

• Negotiating and drafting individual employment agreements for C-suite employees
• Drafting and implementing employment policies for United States and multinational employers, including drug and alcohol testing, progressive discipline of employees, expatriate relocation, fitness for duty, privacy and other employment-related issues
• Advising management on individual and collective redundancies for local and expatriate employees
• Negotiating employment-related issues in corporate transactions in energy sector
• Conducting workplace investigations of alleged discrimination; fraud and breach of employment policies
• Advising clients and conducting pre-trial analysis and investigation with regard to employment-related issues, including wrongful termination, multiemployer pension plan withdrawals, employment law compliance, public pension funding, and computer fraud and abuse

Employee Benefits / Executive Compensation:

• Designing compensation and benefit strategies to advance corporate goals
• Facilitating compliance with best practices for fiduciary decision-making for international and domestic employee benefit plans
• Developing executive compensation arrangements, including long-term incentives and bonus arrangements, for private and public corporations
• Advising benefits professionals on all aspects of benefit plan administration, including vendor management
• Providing guidance on employee benefit facets of mergers, acquisitions and corporate disclosures
• Assisting clients to achieve documentary and operational compliance with the privacy and security provisions of HIPAA