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Jonathan D. Farrell
Partner of the Firm. Chair of the Firm's Labor and Employment Practice. Areas of Practice:
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Jonathan is a Partner and chair of the Firm's labor and employment law practice group and a member of the Firm's employee benefits and litigation groups. Jonathan is counsel to manufacturing, service, commercial, and management companies, professional practices, non-profit organizations, private educational institutions and insurance companies. An employment and labor relations specialist, Jonathan regularly practices before the National Labor Relations Board, federal and state courts, and federal and state human rights' agencies. He counsels employers on a variety of labor and employment-related laws including the NLRA, OSHA, EEOC, ADA, FMLA and ERISA. He also litigates in these areas.
Jonathan regularly practices and defends employers before the National Labor Relations Board. In the last thirteen years he has been counsel to employers in well over one hundred unfair labor practice investigations. Unlike most labor and employment attorneys, Jonathan has litigated several unfair labor practice trials before administrative law judges of the National Labor Relations Board as well as Section 10(j) proceedings of the National Labor Relations Act in federal court. Even rarer, Jonathan has been successful and victorious against the Board. Jonathan represents employers in unfair labor practice investigations and trials, representation hearings and compliance proceedings.
Jonathan has been involved in approximately twenty-five unionization campaigns for various companies. In all but three campaigns Jonathan has been involved in, the employees elected to remain union free. Jonathan also represents unionized employers in their arbitrations before the American Arbitration Association and New York State Employment Relations Board, assists unionized employers during their collective bargaining negotiations, or conducts the negotiations for them, and advises unionized employers on a daily basis regarding contract interpretation, union issues, and union grievances. Jonathan is also counsel to two multi-employer associations - in the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning industries and the concrete and asphalt industries. Because of Jonathan's experience in traditional labor law, he has developed an expertise in the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980 and has represented employers in connection with withdrawal liability assessments.
Jonathan has successfully represented various employers in over one hundred fifty wage and hour investigations at the state and federal level in connection with minimum wage, overtime and prevailing wage actions. Jonathan has represented employers before the United States Department of Labor, New York State Department of Labor, New York State Bureau of Public Work and New York Attorney General's Office, General Labor Bureau.
Jonathan regularly drafts employee policies designed to save employers time and money and prevent vexatious employment-related litigation. Jonathan continually drafts employee policies regarding sexual harassment, discrimination, Family and Medical Leave Act, ADA, drug testing, E-mail, employee privacy, and the like. He has drafted personnel policies and handbooks for over two hundred small, medium, and large-sized employers. Jonathan has also successfully represented hundreds of employers in a variety of administrative and judicial proceedings before federal, state and municipal human rights agencies.
Jonathan has been retained by national insurance companies to represent them in their New York-based litigation involving employment and benefits law. Jonathan is currently named metropolitan panel counsel to numerous insurance companies in the areas of Employment Practice Liabilities Insurance and Directors & Officers Insurance. In a leading case before the Second Circuit, Jonathan successfully represented a national insurance company involved in federal litigation over its proper refusal to pay approximately One Million Dollars in benefits pursuant to a long-term disability plan.
Jonathan is admitted to practice before the federal and state courts of New York and New Jersey. Upon graduation from Hofstra University's School of Law, Jonathan received the University's "Award for Excellence" in the field of Labor and Employment Law and the Industrial Relations Research Management "Award for Excellence" in Industrial and Labor Relations.
