LOS ANGELES, July 13, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- While labor lawyers rightly advise employers to put policies in place to guard against sexual harassment claims, employers also need to protect themselves against litigation by adjusting their employee manuals and policies to meet the increase in lawsuits related to dating in the workplace. While relationships in the workplace have been around since the beginning of time, terminated or disciplined employees are now filing claims against their employers because company policies often do not specifically address this behavior.
Ray Gallo, Managing Principal of Gallo & Associates, a commercial law firm based in California, is an expert in this area and can address some of the new laws that are in effect for employers in California, which often sets precedents for other state lawmakers, as well as recent employment-related court decisions outside of California and the impact of these decisions on employers and employees in areas like consensual relationship agreement and supervisor-subordinate relationships.
Ray has been listed as a Rising Star of the Southern California legal community and in Martindale Hubbell's Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers beginning in 2002, having developed a reputation as an able trial lawyer and negotiator. He has been quoted in publications like USA Today and The Los Angeles Times and published in periodicals from California Lawyer to Thomson's Andrews Employment Litigation Reporter on executive employment issues.
We think that this is an important and fast-evolving area of employment law, both in California and nationally. If you might be interested in speaking with Ray on this topic as well as other employment law issues, please contact Rosalia Scampoli at (914) 632 0090 or by email at rscampoli@marketcompr.com.