400 Convention Street, Suite 700, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70802
Practice Areas : Antitrust Law
433 Metairie Road, Metairie, Louisiana, 70005
Practice Areas : Appeals & Appellate
400 Convention Street, Suite 700, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70802
Practice Areas : Business Law
400 Convention Street, Suite 700, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70802
Practice Areas : Employment Law
Northlake Corporate Park, Suite 103, Covington, Louisiana, 70433
Practice Areas : Employment Law
400 Convention Street, Suite 700, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70802
Practice Areas : Business Law
400 Convention Street, Suite 700, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70802
Practice Areas : Employment Law
311 W. University Ave, suite A, Lafayette, Louisiana, 70506
Practice Areas : Employment Law
400 Convention Street, Suite 700, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70802
Practice Areas : Employment Law
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Employment lawyers handle the relationship between workers and employers: discrimination and harassment claims, retaliation, wrongful termination, unpaid wages and overtime, family and medical leave, disability accommodation, non-compete and confidentiality agreements, and severance negotiation.
Many claims must first go through an agency. Discrimination charges generally start at the EEOC or a state fair-employment agency, with deadlines that are short and unforgiving. Wage claims may run through a state labour department or straight to court.
Before you hire
- Ask whether the attorney represents employees, employers, or both. It shapes their perspective and sometimes creates conflicts.
- Preserve evidence early: emails, texts, performance reviews, schedules, pay records. Access to work systems usually disappears on the day of termination.
- Do not sign a severance agreement before it is reviewed. They routinely waive claims worth more than the payment offered.
- Employee-side cases are often taken on contingency or under fee-shifting statutes; employer-side work is hourly.
Workers' compensation covers on-the-job injuries and sits in a separate section of this directory.
Employment Law: frequently asked questions
Are 15-minute breaks required by law?
Not by federal law. No US federal statute requires a 15-minute rest break for adult workers. What federal law does say is that if an employer gives a short break of roughly 5 to 20 minutes, it must be paid and counted as hours worked. Mandatory rest breaks exist only under state law.
How many breaks are required in an 8-hour shift?
Federal law requires no breaks at all. The Fair Labor Standards Act does not mandate meal or rest periods for adults — it only says that short breaks of 5 to 20 minutes, if given, must be paid. Break rights come from state law: about 20 states require meal breaks, and fewer require paid rest breaks.
What is considered harassment by law?
Harassment is unwelcome conduct that is severe or pervasive enough to create an intimidating, hostile or abusive environment. In US law the term covers two different things: workplace and housing harassment based on a protected characteristic, and criminal harassment — repeated conduct that alarms or threatens a specific person.
What is employment law?
Employment law governs the relationship between workers and employers: hiring, pay, hours, leave, discrimination, safety, privacy and termination. In the United States it is a patchwork — federal statutes set the floor, state and local laws add more, and the employment-at-will default shapes everything else.