Healthcare and FDA: Healthcare Employment
Healthcare organizations, such as hospitals, clinics, senior care facilities, and academic medical centers, face industry-specific challenges regarding employment laws and employee benefits. As a multidisciplinary team of lawyers from our Healthcare and FDA, Labor, Employment, and Workplace Safety, Benefits and ESOPs, Executive Compensation, and Immigration practices, our Healthcare Employment practice group is a global, fully integrated team that works with healthcare employers of all sizes and types in safeguarding their relationships with employees, temporary personnel, and contractors.
The Healthcare Employment team's range of work includes ensuring legal compliance in a heavily regulated market, mitigating employment risks, structuring benefits plans and compensation and incentive arrangements, and supporting the recruitment and employment of the best talent globally.
We provide legal counsel to healthcare organizations on a wide array of matters related to:
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
- Personnel compensation and classification
- Retirement plans
- Health and welfare plans
Litigation and Investigations
- Physician compensation disputes
- Discrimination, retaliation, harassment, and whistleblower claims
- Proprietary information and trade secrets
- Complex employee investigations
Immigration
- Physician J-1 waivers
- Temporary work visas
- Permanent residence (PERM, EB-1, NIW)
Regulatory Compliance
- Background screening programs
- Medical staffing arrangements
- Virtual care
- Workplace safety and workplace violence
- Wage and hour laws
- Documentation, participant disclosures, reporting obligations, and filings
- Reasonable accommodations under federal, state, and local law
- Pay transparency
Employment and Industrial Relations
- Employee handbooks
- Physician employment agreements
- Contract grievances
- Transactional support
- Negotiating and administering collective bargaining agreements
- Training on union avoidance
