Employment

Covington’s international employment group advises a wide range of multinational companies on strategic, day-to-day and transaction-specific employment, employee benefit and global mobility issues.

Our expertise encompasses legal aspects of M&A, restrictive covenants, codes of conduct, HR policies, employment and atypical worker contracts, and compensation plans.

Our U.S. employment lawyers have an outstanding record of success in U.S. employment litigation—defending against nationwide class actions, resolving employment disputes privately or through mediation, and negotiating resolutions with federal agencies.

Our global reach gives us a deep understanding of the various models of employment regulation, and our lawyers possess in-depth knowledge of discrimination laws, collective employment rights, redundancy laws, working time compliance/overtime issues, and employment civil and contract claims that multinationals face. We also are able to call on a trusted network of employment counsel across the Middle East, Asia, South America and elsewhere, to provide the local expertise that our clients require while ensuring that advice is responsive, business-oriented and meets Covington’s standards.

We have investigated sensitive sexual harassment claims, conducted extensive employment audits, advised companies on the adoption of global and domestic employment policies appropriate to their business culture and drafted executive employment, share incentive plans, bonus and other compensation agreements.

Our U.S. employment litigation team are recognized nationally and internationally as leaders in employment and ERISA law.