Employment and Labor

WE provide the following Employment and Labor services to our clients:

• Wrongful Discrimination and Termination Damages

• Failure to Promote and Fairly Compensate Damages

• Valuation of Fringe Benefits, Pensions and Incentive Compensation

• Impact of Negative Tax Consequences

• Wage Analysis for Wages-and-Hours Law Violations

• Statistical Analysis of Discriminatory Practices

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SOME of our representative Employment and Labor engagements include:

We assisted plaintiff's counsel in measuring the economic and financial impact of a wrongful termination. Our assessment included loss of wages, performance incentive participation, medical benefits and retirement pension. In addition, we provided a post-judgment analysis of the negative tax consequence of the lump sum jury award.

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We assisted plaintiff's counsel in evaluation of the incidence of a "pattern and practice" of wage discrimination based on race and gender for a group of plaintiffs. Our analysis included estimation and interpretation of the normally used statistical tests for disparate treatment.

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We consulted with defendant's counsel in the evaluation of plaintiff's expert's claim of losses resulting from a wrongful termination. The expert's report concerning this federal government employee adopted methods and assumptions we found inappropriate for government workers. We also provided a quantitative assessment of the report of the defendant's employability expert.

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We assisted plaintiff's counsel in measuring the economic and financial impact of a wrongful termination on an experienced financial services consultant. Our assessment included loss of partnership compensation including performance incentive participation and retirement pension. In addition, we provided a post-judgment analysis of the negative tax consequence.

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We assisted a matrimonial attorney in determining the earnings capacity of a spouse trained and employed as an attorney. Our analysis and testimony considered the education, experience and background of the spouse in determining is full time earnings potential.

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We assisted plaintiff's counsel in measuring the losses resulting from the wrongful termination of a senior municipal executive. Our assessment included loss of salary, medical benefits and retirement pension. The analysis of retirement benefits included a model of the state's pension system under alternative retirement assumptions.

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Our client, the plaintiff, has brought an action pursuant to the provisions of the “Whistleblower” laws. Her compensation, which has ended, was a complex combination of fixed salary and sales commissions derived from two distinctly different revenue streams. Our assignment was to calculate her lost compensation in consideration of projections of the underlying revenue.