People Programs That Scale and Protect
We advise multi-site healthcare platforms on employment and benefits matters across all stages of growth. From onboarding new locations to managing complex disputes, we help you build people programs that support your platform's growth while managing legal risk.
Policies & Handbooks
Multi-state employee handbooks, policies, and compliance programs
Provider Agreements
Employment agreements, restrictive covenants, and equity arrangements
Compensation
Executive compensation, benefits design, and wage and hour compliance
Risk Mitigation
Investigations, training, and dispute resolution for employment matters
What We Deliver
- Provider agreements: Employment and independent contractor agreements, restrictive covenants, equity participation, and compensation structures for physicians, dentists, and other clinical providers
- Multi-state handbooks and policies: Scalable employment policy frameworks that address state-specific requirements for wage and hour, leave, scheduling, and workplace conduct across your entire footprint
- Benefits and executive compensation: Plan design and compliance, 401(k) and health plan administration, ERISA compliance, and executive compensation arrangements including deferred compensation
- Workplace investigations: Internal investigation support, harassment and discrimination response, and management training programs
- Transaction support: Employment diligence, WARN Act compliance, workforce integration planning, and benefit plan harmonization for M&A transactions
When Issues Arise
- Wage and hour defense: Class and collective action defense, Department of Labor investigations, and misclassification disputes for distributed workforces
- Discrimination and harassment: EEOC charge response, state agency proceedings, and employment litigation defense
- Restrictive covenant enforcement: Non-compete and non-solicitation enforcement, trade secret protection, and injunctive relief proceedings
- Executive separations: Negotiated departures, separation agreements, and transition planning for senior executives and clinical leaders
Employment Law & Benefits Team
Amy Christen, Kathleen Cruz, Jillie Foerster, Mike Twomey
Why Employment Law & Benefits Matters for Healthcare Platforms
Healthcare platforms employ large, distributed workforces across multiple states, creating complex compliance obligations that vary by jurisdiction. Wage and hour class actions, provider non-compete disputes, and benefit plan compliance issues can be expensive and disruptive. We help you build people programs that are both competitive for talent and legally sound, and we defend you efficiently when disputes arise.
Ready to Strengthen Your People Programs?
Our team is ready to help you build employment frameworks that support growth across all your locations.
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