Trade and Professional Employment Services

Vedder Price counsels associations and other not-for-profit organizations on negotiating and structuring employment agreements with CEOs and other key personnel. The firm is well-known for its labor relations practice with experts in such diverse areas as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act (Wage/Hour), the Age Discrimination Act, the Equal Pay Act, and other federal and state regulations prohibiting discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, and other characteristics. We are well versed in counseling associations and our other not-for-profit organization clients with respect to matters affecting the hiring and termination of employees, including review of personnel policy manuals and employee handbooks. The firm also assists organizations with their immigration matters, including obtaining work authorization for key executives and professionals and ensuring that these organizations are in compliance with the law.