Employment Law

Employment law covers a complex network of laws that control how employers must treat employees, former employees, and applicants for employment. Hot employment topics in Delaware employment law include executive compensation agreements, non-competition agreements, sexual harassment, discrimination, and wrongful discharge. The employment law lawyers at Tunnell & Raysor have significant experience interpreting and applying state and federal laws in situations involving:

• Administrative decision
• Appeals
• Breach of non-compete and confidentiality agreements
• Civil rights
• Defamation
• Drug testing
• Employee benefits
• Employee privacy
• Employment discrimination (age, race, sex, religious affiliation, disability)
• Employment contracts
• Executive compensation
• Labor law
• Partnership agreements
• Severance agreements
• Sexual harassment
• Unfair competition
• Whistleblower cases
• Workplace tort claims
• Workplace violence and safety
• Wrongful/retaliatory termination

Many of our cases involve application of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), the Federal Employer’s Liability Act (FELA), the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), administrative claims filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and special laws governing municipal employment. We encourage the use of, and have successfully utilized facilitative mediation and arbitration to minimize the time and expense related to resolving employment disputes.