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Eric C. Stuart

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Eric is a shareholder in the Morristown office of Ogletree Deakins. He has a career-long commitment to representing employers in all aspects of traditional labor relations. Eric has extensive experience representing management in collective bargaining negotiations, arbitrations, union organizing campaigns, as well as unfair labor practice and representation proceedings. He has significant experience in the construction, manufacturing, gaming, waste collection and recycling, warehousing, transportation, logistics, hospitality, and service sectors.

Eric has successfully counseled clients in virtually every aspect of labor law including implementing long range labor strategies, strike preparations and injunctions, project labor agreements, prevailing wage litigation, complex business mergers, relocations, plant closings, corporate campaigns, and maintaining positive employee relations. Eric is a veteran litigator and is counsel of record in numerous reported decisions of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). He has litigated before the NLRB a multitude of significant unfair labor practice matters including allegations of mass refusal to hire, surface bargaining, unilateral changes, and claims of unlawful discipline and discharge.

Eric has developed and presented training programs for supervisors dealing with labor law compliance and other topics for human resources professionals. He is a member of the firm’s traditional labor steering committee and is also the author of numerous blogs and articles on developing labor relations issues. He also serves on the NLRB, Region 22 Practice and Procedure Committee.

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Experience

In addition to handling the full spectrum of traditional labor relations matters before the NLRB, Eric also defends employers before state and federal courts, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commision (EEOC) and state agencies in prevailing wage, discrimination, sexual harassment, restrictive covenant, ERISA, and wage and hour matters.

Representative Reported Cases

  • Framan Mechanical Inc. 343 NLRB 53 (2004) (NLRB overruled the administrative law judge and concluded that a construction contractor did not unlawfully discharge multiple union supporters during an organizational campaign).
  • People Care, Inc. 327 NLRB 814 (1999) (successfully defended health care employer against allegations of bad faith bargaining).
  • Sansla, Inc. 323 NLRB 107 (1997) (successfully defended a construction contractor in connection with allegations that a union contract extended beyond a single project to all of the company’s operations).
  • Control Services, Inc. 319 NLRB 1195 (1995) (successfully defended a janitorial company against allegations of mass refusal to hire union members).
  • Schnabel v. Abramson, 232 F.3d 82 (2d Cir 2000) (case of first impression where Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment in favor of the employer on ADEA claim).
  • Cement and Concrete Workers District Council Welfare Funds v. Structural Preservation Systems, Inc. 1999 U.S. App Lexis 29674 (2d Cir. 1999) (court affirmed decision of district court after multi-day ERISA bench trial that construction contractor did not agree to make benefit fund contributions beyond a single project).
  • Jersey Dept. of Labor v. P&R Construction, Inc. 1997 WL359042 (N.J. Adm), 97 N.J.A.R.2d (LBR) 43 (successfully defended public construction contractor in 3-day prevailing wage bench trial involving Department of Labor’s attempt to impose the penalty of debarment).
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