Labor and Employment
For more than 20 years, Neal & Leroy, LLC has had extensive experience in providing high quality representation for management in all aspects of labor and employment disputes as well as providing advisory services to its clients.
The firm also has comprehensive experience in assisting municipal and private clients as well as federal and state agencies with labor and employment legal issues. Our attorneys offer substantive knowledge of labor and employment law supported by proven experience as trial attorneys.
We have represented our clients in hundreds of litigation and administrative matters, from the initial stages of an internal employee complaint through trial and appellate proceedings. We represent employers before the EEOC, the Illinois Department of Human Rights, the Illinois Human Rights Commission, the Chicago Commission of Human Relations, the United States Department of Labor, the Illinois Department of Labor, and the National Labor Relations Board.
Our attorneys argue cases in the appellate court, represent government employers in court and in front of administrative boards and commissions, defend governmental employers in §1983 litigation, and defend employers in federal court litigation involving Title VII, ADEA, ADA §1981, and related anti-discrimination laws.
We have extensive legal, business, and governmental experience. The firm has a long and distinguished history of representing municipalities, municipal authorities, educational institutions, and other public trusts. Additionally, we serve as outside counsel to Fortune 500 corporations including Exelon, Sears Holding Company, and AT&T/SBC, and other public and private sector entities in the areas of discrimination, employment contract, and tort claims such as intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent hiring, and retaliatory discharge.
The firm offers services in the following areas of concentration.
- Anti-Discrimination Laws
- Title VII
- ADA
- ADEA
- Equal Pay Act
- Illinois Human Rights Act
- Chicago Human Rights Ordinance - Common Law Torts
- Retaliatory Discharge
- Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
- Employment Related Defamation - Contract Issues
- Employment Contracts
- Non-compete Clauses
- Unfair Business Practices
- Severance Plans and Agreements - Regulatory Issues
- U.S. Department of Labor
- FMLA
- Wage & Hour Issues - Illinois Department of Labor
- Illinois Personnel Record Review Act
- Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act - OFCCP - EEO issues
- Fair Credit Reporting Act Issues
- Advisory Services
- Training
- Workplace Misconduct Investigations
- Public Sector Employment Issues
- First Amendment
- Due Process
- Equal Protection
- Civil Service & Merit Board Hearings - State & Federal Court Litigation
- Traditional Labor Law
Key Representative Matters
- Represent employers before the EEOC, the Illinois Department of Human Rights, the Illinois Human Rights Commission and analogous state agencies.
- Represent government employers in court and in front of administrative boards and commissions.
- Advises employers regarding state law torts, such as intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent hiring and retaliatory discharge.
- Drafts language for employee handbooks and policy manuals.
- Drafts employee severance agreements and releases.
- Defends governmental employers in § 1983 litigation.
- Defends employers in federal court litigation brought under Title VII, ADEA, ADA § 1981 and related anti-discrimination laws.