Steven L. Hamann

Shareholder

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Chicago

Steven L. Hamann joined Vedder Price in 2000 as a Shareholder and is a member of the firm’s Labor and Employment practice area. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Hamann spent more than ten years in human resources departments at Bechtel and Detroit Edison Company with responsibility for a wide variety of issues affecting unionized and non-union employees.

Mr. Hamann counsels and defends employers in a broad range of industries on labor and employment law and litigation matters, including employment discrimination, racial and sexual harassment, retaliatory discharge, worker’s compensation retaliation, and breach of employment contract.

He also represents management in union organizing campaigns, labor negotiations and grievance and arbitration proceedings. Significant responsibilities include:

• Representing management in daily interface with local and international union representatives concerning grievances, jurisdictional disputes, and management rights issues.
• Interpreting and applying collective bargaining agreements. Advising management of current and anticipated labor problems.
• Coordinating with responsible client and utility management personnel on labor related matters. Representing management’s interests in dealing with government agencies, e.g., NLRB, EEOC.
• Negotiating labor agreements.
• Coordinating with contractor associates during negotiations.

Mr. Hamann received a "BV Distinguished" Peer Rating in Martindale-Hubbell.

Mr. Hamann is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and the Labor and Employment Law Section of the American Bar Association.

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• Recent Accomplishments in Labor and Employment Law
• Neutrality Agreements - Paving the Road to Unionization
• First High Court FMLA Case: Failure to Designate Time Off As Family/Medical Leave May be Risky
• No Back Pay for Undocumented Alien

• Arbitration / Grievances / Mediation
• Collective Bargaining
• Discrimination Law
• Employment Class Action Defense
• Employment Counseling
• Employment Litigation
• Fair Labor Standards Act
• Labor and Employment Law
• Labor Relations
• Strike Support
• Supervisor Training
• Workplace Security
• Wrongful Discharge

• J.D., cum laude, University of Detroit School of Law, 1987
• National Wagner Labor Moot Court Competition, 1986
• Am Jr Book Award, Private Sector Labor Law, 1986
• American Inn of Courts, 1987
• B.A. (Labor Relations), with honors, Michigan State University, 1974

• Illinois, 1987
• US District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 1987

• Member, American Bar Association (Labor and Employment Law Section)
• Member, Chicago Bar Association