Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP is a multi-service New England based law firm with offices in Boston, Providence, Hartford, Concord and Albany. Founded in 1906, the firm now employs over 130 attorneys. Our firm is committed to providing expert legal counsel and in-depth industry knowledge to many of the region's publicly held corporations and emerging businesses with both domestic and foreign operations, several of the nation's and region's most highly regarded educational institutions, academic medical centers, hospitals, financial institutions, manufacturing companies and several of the nation's largest real estate developers and construction companies. Whether your business is a Fortune 500 corporation, a privately held company, or a not-for-profit organization, we have the experience and the capabilities to counsel you.

Hinckley Allen's Labor and Employment attorneys are among the most skilled and savvy in the industry. The group offers a broad range of legal services relating to labor and employment law, including advice, counseling and training.

Our attorneys provide sound and practical advice in all areas of the law arising from the employee-employer relationship. We counsel our clients concerning employee discipline and discharge, reduction-in-force, harassment, wage-hour matters, leaves of absence, workplace privacy, employment agreements, affirmative action and personnel policies and practices. We also conduct workplace training for clients on topics such as unlawful harassment and fair employment practices, and we conduct audits of client practices.

We provide advice and training to clients who desire to remain union-free, including supervisory training focusing on effective employee relations and positive communications between management and employees. When petitions for union representation elections are filed, our attorneys help clients respond to unionization efforts by developing effective campaigns. We negotiate labor agreements for our clients whose employees are represented by unions, we advise our clients regarding contract administration and grievances, and we represent clients in arbitrations. We also investigate and respond to unfair labor practice charges brought against our clients before the NLRB.

We respond to administrative charges and defend our clients before the EEOC and state discrimination agencies, including the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, the Rhode Island Human Rights Commission, the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities and the New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights. When clients are sued in court, we work closely with them to develop a cost-effective, results-oriented defense strategy.

We regularly advise clients concerning their pay practices, including overtime exemption and independent contractor classifications. Our attorneys also defend clients in the growing area of wage and hour litigation. Our work includes guiding clients through investigations by the US Department of Labor and state enforcement agencies. We also defend clients in court with respect to both individual claims and wage-hour class actions.

We advise clients on OSHA standards and regulations and assist them in preparing for compliance inspections. Our attorneys also defend clients at hearings when they are cited for safety violations.

We advise our clients on the enforceability of non-competition, non-solicitation, and other restrictive covenant agreements. We obtain preliminary injunctions in court on behalf of employers to enforce these agreements against former employees. We also represent former employees and/or their new employers in defeating such injunctive relief.

We litigate ERISA and other employee benefits disputes. Our attorneys handle benefit, fiduciary duty, discrimination, reporting and disclosure, pension and welfare plan interpretation, executive compensation and stock options and multi-employer plan claims.