Employment and Labor Law
 Turner Padget’s Employment and Labor Law practice provides counsel and litigation services to management in all employment and labor-related matters. Our clients range from large complex corporations with employees that number in the thousands to mid-level and small businesses with detailed
employment requirements and benefits.
Our legal services to our clients in this area include:
- Employment Discrimination
- Sexual Harassment Claims
- FMLA Compliance
- Hiring and Discharge
- Employee Handbooks
- Wage and Hour
- ERISA
- Employment Contracts
- Covenants not to Compete
- EPLI
- ADA
- Substance Abuse and Testing
- Wrongful Termination
- Union Activity/Collective Bargaining Agreements
- FELA
The firm has experience serving employment clients across the following industries:
- Service
- Health Care
- Manufacturing
- Governmental
- Retail
- Packaging
- Distribution
Employment Law requires a team of seasoned and knowledgeable professionals, and Turner Padget has a team of professionals that have the experience and knowledge to serve our clients. Frank Shuler
and Reggie Belcher members of this practice group,
are certified by the South Carolina Supreme Court as a specialist in Employment/Labor Law, a designation that is earned by less than 1 percent of South Carolina attorneys. Other highlights of our attorneys include:
- A Turner Padget employment attorney serves as the chairperson of the Defense Research Institute Employment Law Committee
- The Practice Leader is a certified arbitrator and mediator with experience in mediating large, complex matters. Other employment attorneys are also certified arbitrators and mediators.
- A Turner Padget employment attorney was chosen as a Best Lawyer in America from 2004 to present.
Some of our employment experience includes:
- Defense of a national discount store in a lawsuit alleging violation of the FMLA and failure to accommodate pursuant to the ADA.
- Successful defense of a large harassment claim against a national manufacturing company.
- Defense of a national manufacturer in a South Carolina class action alleging race discrimination.
- Employment law advice and counsel to complete a successful merger of two large distributors resulting in job reclassifications, transfers and job eliminations.
- Formulation of a complex Affirmative Action program.
- Harassment training for both governmental entities and corporations.
- Successful defense of a FMLA claim against a mid-size service company.
- Formulation of a large reduction in force for a service company.
- Successful merger of more than three-hundred employees into an acquiring company.
- Successful defense of a charge of discriminatory hiring and promotion for a health care firm.
Attorneys
Shareholders
Arthur E. Justice, Employment and Labor Law Practice Leader, Florence
Reginald W. Belcher, Columbia
Vernon F. Dunbar, Greenville
Donnell G. Jennings, Columbia
J. René Josey, Florence
Franklin G. Shuler, Columbia
Associates
Michelle P. Clayton, Columbia
J. Jacob Kennedy, Florence
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