Employment Law

Keeping up with changes in employment law can be challenging for business owners and managers, but AKC Law is here to help.

Our attorneys stay current on legal developments and trends so we can provide up-to-date guidance to our clients to allow for their compliance with the law.

Since 1944, AKC Law has effectively advised and assisted employers with a wide array of employment law issues that include:

• Appropriate hiring and firing, performance evaluation, lay-offs, and reductions-in-force
• Employment contracts
• Confidentiality agreements
• Employee handbooks and policies, including the necessary training to ensure compliance
• Training on sexual harassment prevention, employee hiring, discipline, and discharge, and documentation techniques
• Employee duty of loyalty, fiduciary duties, and unfair competition
• Misappropriation of confidential information and trade secrets
• Workers’ compensation
• I-9 and employment eligibility verification issues
• Whistleblower and retaliation claims
• Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
• Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)
• Title VII discrimination claims, including sexual harassment
• Nebraska Fair Employment Practices Act (FEPA) claims
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) wage and hour issues
• 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims
• OSHA/workplace safety-related matters
• National Labor Relations Board’s unfair labor practices
• Pregnant Workers Fairness Act