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Full Service Law Firm | Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

Specializing in the Intersection of Business &amp; Government

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Guiding Employers Through Compliance with Confidence

We represent employers across nearly every industry, defending them in OSHA and MSHA matters, including inspections, citations, and litigation. Our team also helps clients proactively develop safety and health policies, leveraging deep regulatory knowledge and expert partnerships to reduce the risk of investigations and manage workplace hazards in real time.

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Strategic Employment Law Solutions for Today’s Workplace

Our experienced team delivers strategic counsel and practical solutions across critical areas of employment law, from building compliant policies and defending wage claims to promoting workplace safety and meeting affirmative action requirements. We tailor our approach to fit your business, helping you minimize risk and maintain a productive, legally sound workplace.

Our team helps employers build and maintain compliant, business-aligned workplace policies. We provide audits, training, and legal guidance on everything from handbooks and hiring documents to contractor requirements and day-to-day HR practices.

Employment Policies, Practices &amp; Audits

We offer strategic support to identify wage compliance risks, respond to investigations, and defend against claims. Our approach is tailored to each organization, helping reduce exposure and ensure alignment with federal and state laws.

Wage and Hour Compliance &amp; Defense

Employers rely on our team for OSHA and MSHA compliance, incident response, and enforcement defense. We assist with policy development, reporting obligations, and safety-related discipline, while supporting due diligence during transactions.

Workplace Safety &amp; Health

Our Affirmative Action Compliance team offers legal and consulting services to help government contractors navigate complex federal, state, and local affirmative action regulations. We assist with Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) data collection, design, and implementation, combining legal insight with tailored consulting to ensure compliance while supporting effective hiring and retention strategies.

Affirmative Action

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When a manufacturing client’s sales team called human resources in a panic for the first time providing the text of a contract clause on local affirmative action requirements and invoices on which payment was delayed, we quickly modified the client’s federal AAP to fit the local jurisdiction’s requirements, allowing for invoice payments to be processed.

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We successfully resolved six compliance reviews in 24 months for a telecom client. We worked with the client’s human resources team to create a strategy for complying with regulatory requirements concerning employee placement into 20+ AAPs, including reviewing the data within a 30-day submission window to resolve errors that were contributing to apparent adverse impact. We additionally provided explanations for initial impact results, identified and prepared for likely audit questions, and reframed auditor questions related to compensation to appropriate comparators.

We assisted a higher education client in a compliance review of its complex compensation structure and the broad job groups developed by a past consultant. We were able to define more appropriate pay analysis groups and discrete recruiting/hiring pools, successfully resolving inquiries on adverse impact and pay disparities.

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We help clients identify potential wage and hour concerns to minimize or reduce risk exposure and to take the necessary steps to ensure compliance with federal and state laws. This includes review of exempt/non-exempt and independent contractor classifications, off-the-clock work policies, and other pay-related calculation practices and subsequently guiding clients through the necessary steps to efficiently and cost-effectively address these issues.

We are experienced in working with federal and state labor officials and representing clients in DOL and state labor department investigations, and we can provide strategic guidance on the best approach to achieving a favorable outcome in agency investigations.

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