Labor & Employment

Addressing the full range of concerns in today’s workplace

Overview

R L Scott’s dedicated Labor & Employment group is passionate about serving public and private labor groups, employers and individual employees across Upstate and Western, NC. Our highly specialized team addresses the full range of legal concerns at all levels of employment, benefit plans, and small- to medium-sized businesses and organizations. Our team is ready to go to work for you today.

Tradition

Rooted in a decades-long tradition of support of union labor organizations, we are dedicated to making the workplace a better place for everyone we serve. We provide cost effective assistance to all our clients in navigating the myriad of state and federal labor and employment laws and regulations.

Advocacy & Results

We provide strong and reliable advocacy and results at the bargaining table, the courthouse, and agencies such as the National Labor Relations Board and the North Carolina Public Employment Relations Board.

Public and Private Labor Relations

Decades of experience representing public and private labor unions

RL Scott relations attorneys have decades of experience working with, and are dedicated to, both public and private labor unions. As skilled litigators, we assist unions with collective bargaining and internal governance, as well as the myriad of legal issues facing unions today. Our lawyers have years of dedication to the labor movement, are well-versed in federal and state labor laws, and are experienced in representing unions in the courtroom, before arbitrators and at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and State Human Resources Commission. Whether delivering results at the bargaining table, the courthouse, before the NLRB or other government agencies, we provide strong advocacy on behalf of our union clients, both public and private, that are represented across Central and Western North Carolina.

DECADES OF EXPERIENCE WITH:

• Drafting, negotiating and enforcing collective bargaining agreements
• Representation and unfair labor practice cases before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and improper practice cases before the State Human Resources Commission
• Supporting all phases of union organizing, establishment, elections, governance, picketing and strikes
• Contract and employee grievance and arbitration proceedings
• Duty of fair representation actions
• Prevailing wage issues
• Internal union affairs
• Compliance with government regulations and reporting requirements
• Representing workers in Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) actions
• Mediation and negotiation, as appropriate
• Litigation and appeals of all union matters in federal and state courts and administrative agencies such as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the State Human Resources Commission

LABOR UNIONS WE'VE REPRESENTED:

• Police departments
• Fire departments
• Teachers’ unions
• Public transportation
• Regional building trade unions
• Manufacturing unions
• Service sector unions
• Various other unions