Reinstated NLRB Rules and Union Organization: Lessons Learned From Amazon

Mr. Garrison represents and counsels employers on a broad range of complex labor and employment matters, with a particular focus on traditional labor issues. Businesses nationwide rely on Mr. Garrison for practical guidance on challenging labor matters--including clients in the automotive, construction, healthcare, gaming, logistics, manufacturing and utility industries. He represents management by serving as the primary spokesperson in collective bargaining negotiations, handling grievance arbitrations, and counseling clients on union organizing issues, work stoppages, and day-to-day contract administration issues. Mr. Garrison also has extensive experience in unfair labor practice and representation proceedings before the NLRB. He assists clients with the labor implications of corporate transactions, providing strategic advice and counseling on the labor law issues that can arise in mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations, and in facility consolidations, relocations and closings involving union and non-union facilities.

Concentrating in the area of employment and labor law and litigation for nearly 30 years, Ms. Yerger has amassed a wide range of knowledge and abilities to effectively advise both public and private-sector clients in state and federal courts in addition to administrative matters before the EEOC, PHRC, PLRB, and NLRB. She has developed extensive experience handling complex litigation arising from workplace disputes including sexual and racial harassment; age, race, gender, religion and disability discrimination, wrongful discharge, retaliation, and other claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the Americans with Disabilities Act; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act; the Family and Medical Leave Act; and the Pennsylvania Wage Payment and Collection Law. Ms. Yerger has experience drafting and reviewing employment contracts, non-compete agreements, and separation/severance agreements. She routinely handles litigation in the federal district court in the Middle District of Pennsylvania and has litigated commercial disputes, licensing issues, regulatory concerns and employment-related matters.