Practice Areas

Belton, PC offers a broad range of legal services related to businesses’ workplace needs.

Offer straightforward advice for complex employment challenges including performance problems, employee complaints, sexual harassment, bullying, violence, remote work, and other personnel related issues.
Assist with navigating the interactive process for employees requesting accommodations.
Advise clients on leaves of absence and sick time.
Defend claims before administrative agencies such as the DLSE, DFEH, EEOC, and NLRB.
Negotiate pre-litigation settlements including through mediation.

Draft employment contracts, commission agreements, bonus and incentive plans, non-disclosure agreements, and arbitration agreements
Create and revise employee handbooks and manuals.
Prepare and negotiate termination, general release, and severance documents.
Prepare and negotiate independent contractor agreements and assist in transitioning workers from independent contractor status to employment status.
Negotiate executive employment contracts and separation documents.
Protect trade secrets against unfair competition.
Review and negotiate contracts with vendors, especially staffing services providing a workforce on property or servicing the businesses clients.

Draft employer policies applicable to payroll and timekeeping including complex commission and incentive plans.
Calculate regular rate of pay for non-exempt and hourly employees paid at multiple pay rates or with bonus, commission or other incentives.
Analyze exemptions and draft accompanying job descriptions.
Advise clients regarding meal and rest period compliance.
Paystub review and analysis.
Audit for wage and hour compliance.

Conduct prompt, impartial investigations into a wide variety of complaints including allegations of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, bullying, policy violations, and other personnel issues.
Review employer time and pay discrepancies.

Advise buy or sell side on employment issues triggered by mergers and acquisitions.
Assist corporate counsel or out of state employment counsel identifying wage and hour issues, including misclassification analysis and analysis of pay practices and preparing associated disclosures.
Analyze existing employment agreements, collective bargaining agreements, and related obligations.
Help clients manage the risk related to employee retention and layoffs in connection with merges and acquisitions.
Analyze existing employment practices and policies and post-transaction revision and integration of policies.

Counseling related to issues including organizing/avoidance campaigns, work stoppages, reductions in force, and other related issues.
Negotiations with unions including collective bargaining agreements, effects negotiations, and other mid-term agreements.
Defense of unfair labor practices, grievances and arbitrations pending with the NLRB, PERB, and labor arbitrators.
Advise employers and train management teams in their efforts to remain union-free and avoid union expansion.

Conduct interactive training for supervisors and non-supervisory employees on important
and sensitive topics tailored to the nuances of the workforce and industry involved including sexual harassment training as required by California law, union avoidance and labor- management relations, meal and rest break compliance, and other topics appliable to the workforce.
Provide one-on-one and small group coaching.