Kirton & McConkie helps employers develop, implement, and administer effective employment policies and practices. With our broad background in federal and state employment laws and worker compensation laws, we counsel with you on the most practical and least risky methods, practices, and strategies. Our attorneys have real-world experience working inside corporate employers. We know your problems and when the claims and litigation arise, we are there to defend you in the courts and agencies in which we regularly practice.

Investing in Your Future
Kirton & McConkie is available to help you when you are in a crisis or need a job done. Indeed, we are committed to responding promptly with dependable advice whenever a problem confronts you. But we also go one step further -- we teach you, at no charge, to handle simple or routine issues and to know enough to get help when treading into complex and murky areas. The Employment Law Practice Section hosts regular luncheon-seminars for employers covering a wide range of concerns, including wage and hour laws, avoiding retaliation liability, workers' compensation and occupational disease claims, making reasonable accommodations under the ADA, employee benefits law, and public policy wrongful termination.

Avoiding Problems
Of course, we have extensive litigation, arbitration, and mediation experience to help you economically resolve your toughest employment disputes. But, in reality, all disputes create unplanned, unproductive financial and human resource drains. Employers are best served by ferreting out bad practices before they lead to disputes by finding the leaks before the pipes burst. We are committed to help you stamp out potential problems before they happen, through employment audits, discipline counseling, revising employee handbooks, developing wise practices and policies, training supervisors and managers, creating protective agreements, and the like.

AVOIDING LIABILITY

• Dealing with the problem employee
• Spotting "red flags"
• Training and notices
• Avoiding harassment and retaliation
• Documenting problems and discipline
• Careful terminations
• Hiring and promotion practices
• Wage and overtime issues
• Injured worker issues

EMPLOYMENT AUDITS

• Wage practices
• Postings and notices
• Discrimination and harassment
• Termination, hiring, and promotion

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENTS

• Executive agreements
• Collective bargaining agreements
• Separation agreements
• Claim settlement agreements
• Intellectual property agreements
• Non-competition agreements
• Independent contractor agreements

EMPLOYEE HANDBOOKS, PRACTICES, AND POLICIES

TRAINING OF SUPERVISORS, MANAGERS, AND CLAIMS ADJUSTERS

HANDLING CLAIMS

• EEOC and UALD charges
• Unemployment compensation
• Workers' compensation and occupational disease
• OSHA
• U.S. Department of Labor
• Utah Labor Commission

LITIGATING CLAIMS

• Discrimination and harassment
• Retaliation
• FMLA
• ADA
• ADEA
• Civil Rights
• Wrongful termination
• Emotional distress