Harry Johnson is a partner in the Labor Employment & OSHA practice group. His practice and experience cover the full range of management-side labor and employment law.
Harry’s civil litigation practice focuses on litigation of California and federal wage-hour cases and related wage-hour compliance counseling. Harry regularly defends clients in complex wage-hour class and collective action litigation under both California and federal law, with prior experience in more than 35 cases. He has handled ten of these class actions with Arent Fox in 2011-2012. Harry also provides compliance/auditing advice to reduce or eliminate the exposure of businesses that have to operate under California’s detailed but broad-ranging statutory requirements related to pay and working hours.
Harry also represents clients in the traditional union/labor field. This includes National Labor Relations Board unfair labor practice and representation proceedings in the area of administrative law. Beyond this core area, Harry also represents employers in union representation campaigns, union corporate campaigns, labor arbitrations, collective bargaining, labor-management relations, labor-related advice for mergers and acquisitions, and federal and state labor injunction cases.
In addition, Harry has extensive experience in all other areas of management employment defense, including California and federal employment discrimination cases; administrative California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement cases; and general management-side civil employment litigation, counseling, arbitration, and mediation. In the area of discrimination law, he has advised employers on issues such as disparate impact and treatment claims of alleged racial, sexual, age, national origin, disability, and sexual orientation discrimination; harassment claims and investigations; retaliation claims; and disability accommodation and leaves. Harry also has counseled clients concerning enforceable employment arbitration policies after AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, family and other protected leaves, handbook review, employee competition issues, plant closings, the employee/labor aspects of mergers and acquisitions, layoffs, and employment contract drafting and claims.
In July 2011, Harry was recognized by the Daily Journal as one of the Top 75 Labor and Employment Attorneys in California. He has also been noted in Superlawyer magazine in Los Angeles every year since 2008.