JEFFREY L. HIRSCH
Jeff Hirsch is an experienced attorney, author and teacher who has practiced management labor and employment law for over 28 years. During that time, Jeff has advised and represented hundreds of employers in many diverse fields, including higher education, healthcare, human services, manufacturing, transportation, hospitality, retail, food processing, textile, and many service industries. Jeff is also the author of widely-used book Labor and Employment in Massachusetts, and he has written similar books analyzing the laws of Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. Jeff also wrote the Occupational Safety and Health Handbook, which is distributed nationally. Jeff’s books are relied upon by thousands of lawyers, executives, and human resources professionals around the United States.
Jeff regularly represents employers in labor negotiations, union organizing drives, wage and hour cases, discrimination and wrongful discharge cases. He has appeared on behalf of his clients before dozens of state and federal agencies, including the National Labor Relations Board, United States Department of Labor, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, Massachusetts Attorney General’s Fair Labor Division, New Hampshire Human Rights Commission, New Hampshire Department of Labor, New York State Division of Human Rights, New York State Department of Labor and state and federal courts.
Jeff also represents unionized employers in arbitration proceedings pursuant to various collective bargaining agreements in matters involving disputes regarding contract interpretation, employee discipline, and employee discharge. These proceedings are usually administered by the American Arbitration Association or the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
Like all HRW lawyers, Jeff also believes in effective proactive partnering with clients, and he spends a significant amount of time providing in-house educational training to help his clients avoid costly disruptions and disputes.
Practice Areas
- Collective bargaining
- Unfair labor practice proceedings
- Labor arbitrations
- Union organizing campaigns
- Executive and leadership education
- Safety and health
- Wage and hour, child labor, prevailing rate, overtime, both state and federal
- Independent contractor matters
- Hiring, discipline and termination
- Leaves of absence, FMLA, and ADA issues
- Investigations
- Corporate restructuring and downsizing, severance agreements and releases
Honors and Appointments
- AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
- Ranked by Chambers USA in Labor and Employment Law
- Included in Best Lawyers in America in Labor and Employment Law
- Named a “Massachusetts Super Lawyer” in Labor and Employment Law
- Inducted into the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, 2005
- Member, Editorial Board, Bender’s Labor & Employment Bulletin
- Institute Fellow, Boston University Human Resources Policy Institute, 1983 to present
- Recipient of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination Leadership Award, January 22, 2002
Publications
- Labor and Employment in Massachusetts, published by Lexis Nexis
- Labor and Employment in Connecticut, (with Stephen Fogerty), published by Lexis Nexis
- Labor and Employment in New Hampshire, (with Andrea Johnstone), published by Lexis Nexis
- Labor and Employment in Rhode Island, (with Thomas Wigand), published by Lexis Nexis
- Occupational Safety and Health Handbook, published by Lexis Nexis
- Member of the Editorial Board of Bender’s Labor & Employment Bulletin since 2001
Bar Admissions
- Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1982
- New York , Appellate Division, Fourth Department, 1983
- United States District Court for the Western District of New York, 1983
- United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, 1985
- United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1990
- New Hampshire Supreme Court, 2004
Education
- Cornell University, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, B.S. 1979
- Boston University School of Law, J.D. 1982
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