Employment

Vested Law provides all forms of employment law services including those that a start-up or developing business critically requires.

Audits & Management Counsel

  • Employment policies and procedures
  • Actual practice to help companies, especially developing companies, avoid employment issues that they do not see developing.
  • Advice regarding disciplinary actions, demotions, and terminations.
  • Management of nascent legal and quasi-legal complaints by employees and former employees.
  • Management, analysis, and response to formal legal and quasi-legal complaints by employees and former employees, including complaints to governmental agencies (EEOC, DFEH, DLSE, etc.) and demand letters.

 

Drafting

  • Personnel policies, handbooks, and new hire forms.
  • Employment contracts, compensation agreements, proprietary information agreements, and severance agreements.

 

Development

  • Guidelines for hiring, performance management, performance counseling, employee discipline, and termination.
  • Processes for proper investigation of internal, formal and informal complaints.
  • Guidelines for legal compensation of employees, including all age and hour issues.
  • Guidelines for accommodation of disabilities.
  • Legally appropriate family and medical leave programs.