Tinnin Law Firm, P.C. provides experienced representation to a broad range of both public and private entities engaged in manufacturing, retailing, wholesale distribution, healthcare, banking, construction, government contracting, transportation, utilities, hospitality, and commercial activity.

The Firm represents employers before the National Labor Relations Board and the Public Employee Labor Relations Board, administrative agencies, and in arbitration primarily in the areas of employment litigation, labor relations, and insurance and tort defense.

The Firm regularly represents clients in discrimination, harassment, and retaliation litigation, providing expertise in such EEO laws as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Equal Pay Act, Executive Order 11246, and the New Mexico Human Rights Act.

The Firm assists employers in affirmative action compliance and in responding to investigations by the EEOC, the New Mexico Human Rights Bureau, the OFCCP, and other agencies charged with enforcement of EEO laws.

The Firm advises and represents clients in wage and hour compliance and litigation. Firm lawyers are well versed on issues arising the Fair labor Standards Act, the Davis-Bacon Act, the New Mexico Minimum Wage Act, and other federal and state laws governing minimum wages and overtime, unemployment compensation, and health and safety.

The Firm also advises employers in immigration compliance issues and represents employers in state law tort and contract employment claims, such as wrongful discharge, defamation, and breach of implied contract.

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Tinnin Law Firm, P.C. is capable of addressing all aspects of the union-employer relationship. The Firm represents employers before the National Labor Relations Board and Public Employee Labor Relations Board in unfair labor practice proceedings and representation proceedings.

Firm lawyers have extensive experience advising employers who wish to achieve or maintain a union-free environment. Many clients have become union-free as a result of successful decertification campaigns, while others have been successful in combating union organizational efforts.

The Firm offers training programs to educate managers and supervisors regarding the legal aspects of union organizational and decertification campaigns. Firm attorneys also provide employers with strategical and tactical advice during union election campaigns.

The Firm's lawyers are prepared to immediately respond to protect employers' legal rights during critical work stoppage situations. They can bring suits in state or federal courts for injunctive relief against mass picketing, violence, or work stoppages that violate statutory or contractual provisions.

Firm lawyers are knowledgeable in how to use NLRB processes for the resolution of secondary picketing and boycotting.

The Firm represents employers in all phases of collective bargaining and labor contract administration, including review and formulation of contract proposals, preparation of contract language, advice on bargaining strategy, contract negotiation and mediation.

Firm attorneys are experienced in representing multi-employer groups and trade associations in collective bargaining. The Firm offers advise to clients in the interpretation of labor contracts and represent clients in labor contract grievance disputes and interest arbitrations.

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In addition to its labor and employment litigation services, the Firm takes pride in providing clients with skilled preventative counseling to reduce the risks of litigation. Firm lawyers counsel clients with such human resource issues as accommodating persons with disabilities, employee discipline, reductions in force, wage and hour matters, policy/handbook and contract drafting and revision, FMLA compliance, and conducting workplace investigations.

Firm attorneys serve as the editors of New Mexico Employment Law Letter, a monthly state specific publication that updates employers on breaking developments in labor and employment law, published by M. Lee Smith Publishers, LLC.

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The Firm has extensive experience in insurance and tort litigation, including personal injury, property damage, general liability, products liability, medical malpractice, bad faith, workers' compensation, business torts, toxic torts and defense of governmental entities under the New Mexico Tort Claims Act.

Firm attorneys have represented insurers, private and public entities, and individuals in all areas of litigation, including complex litigation, class actions, and wrongful death lawsuits.

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