Bob Kaiser is a member of the Employment and Labor practice group representing emerging and mature businesses in labor and personnel-related disputes. Because employment and labor laws and regulations continue to evolve, he deftly guides management in creating “fences” and boundaries to assess risks and decrease litigation.
A portion of Bob’s practice includes traditional labor law, a focus he has had for more than 25 years. For small- to mid-sized organizations, he handles labor union relations such as union avoidance, collective bargaining, elections, strikes, picketing and other work stoppage issues and reduction-in-force planning. He routinely arbitrates conflicts between management and the labor unions and appears before the National Labor Relations Board.
As counsel to both public and private sector employers, including manufacturing companies, health care providers and governmental entities, Bob advocates in employment matters throughout the country involving discrimination and wrongful discharge. His cases involve federal and state laws acts including the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disability Act (ADA), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), state anti-discrimination statutes and the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). He frequently appears before state and federal courts, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Missouri Human Rights Commission, the Illinois Department of Human Rights and the Department of Labor/Wage and Hour Division.
