• Training
• Audits
• Employee and Management Opinion Surveys 
• Union Free Workplace Services
• Union Relationship Services
• Policies and Programs
• Facility Closings and Reductions-in-Force
• Employment Contracts and Agreements

Kiesewetter Wise offers a broad array of unique and specialized employment law, labor relations, and human resources consulting services.

Training

As part of our strategy to strengthen the human resources environments of our clients, we develop and conduct supervisory and employee training programs, labor relations seminars, and leadership development programs. We have routine compliance training applicable to a wide range of employers but we have often worked with our clients to develop customized programming for their specific work environments and needs. Examples of the training topics covered by our programs include:

• Workplace harassment prevention, investigation, and resolution
• Union awareness and avoidance training
• Positive employee relations
• Legal issues in employment and labor relations
• Diversity in the workplace
• Americans with Disabilities Act compliance
• Family and Medical Leave Act compliance
• Equal Employment Opportunity compliance
• Interviewing practices
• Hiring practices
• Employee orientation programs
• Counseling and disciplinary practices
• Termination practices
• Workplace investigations
• Supervisory leadership skills training
• Motivation training
• Performance management and evaluations
• Conflict resolution and problem solving
• Employee communication techniques
• Culture changes and change management

Audits

We regularly assist our clients by conducting audits or assisting clients with internal audits of a variety of human resource, labor relations and legal compliance audits, including:

• Morale and union susceptibility audits
• Total human resources systems audits
• Legal compliance audits (EEO, FLSA, etc.)
• Wage and hour compliance and policy audits
• Human relations performance audits

Employee and Management Opinion Surveys

Kiesewetter Wise has conducted and worked with clients to both design and conduct opinion and attitude surveys of both employees and management on a variety of subjects including workplace morale, communication, and leadership.

Union Free Workplace Services

Kiesewetter Wise frequently assists clients in maintaining positive relations with their employees and in seeking to maintain a union free status in the workplace. In this regard, we routinely assist clients by providing:

• Development of labor relations strategies and policies
• Employee morale audits
• Team attitude surveys
• Union avoidance and awareness training
• Union avoidance campaigns
• Employee communication programs

Union Relationship Services

Kiesewetter Wise attorneys have extensive experience working with clients to manage the relationship between employers, unions and employees in a unionized workplace by providing:

• Development of labor relations and contract strategies
• Drafting and negotiation of collective bargaining agreements
• Handling of internal grievances
• Arbitration of claims under the collective bargaining agreements
• Support for employer communication programs during union organizing campaigns
• Development of employee communication and involvement programs

Policies and Programs

Kiesewetter Wise works with employers to develop handbooks, policies, programs and communication devices with the goal of improving productivity and maintaining legal compliance. Some of the services include:

• Handbook and policy reviews
• Employee involvement programs
• Problem solving/continuous improvement programs
• Communications programs
• Culture changes and change management
• Internal grievance and peer review programs
• Arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution processes

Facility Closings and Reductions-in-Force

Kiesewetter Wise has extensive experience assisting clients in the process of closing facilities or reducing staff to meet changing economic circumstances. Among the services provided by our professionals are:

• Analysis and planning of reductions-in-force strategies
• Planning of facility closing or relocation
• Drafting of reduction-in-force plans
• Severance and release agreements
• OWBPA compliance
• Compliance with federal WARN statute and similar state and local statutes
• Effects bargaining in unionized facilities
• Employee and community communication

Employment Contracts and Agreements

Kiesewetter Wise attorneys have significant experience in the planning, negotiation and drafting of a variety of employment contracts and agreements including:

• Executive agreements
• Compensation and bonus plans
• Employment separation/severance and release agreements
• Non-compete and non-solicitation agreements
• Trade secrets and confidentiality agreements
• Independent contractor agreements