Experience
Executive Employment Matters: Peter often advises clients on highly sensitive matters involving investigations into alleged misconduct by senior executives, and regularly assists in the separation of executives where clients determine that changes are required. Peter also has extensive experience in negotiating the on-boarding of new members of clients' executive teams. Peter has worked with many organizations in implementing non-competition restrictions for their senior managers, as part of their efforts to protect corporate goodwill and confidential information.
Employment Counseling: Peter assists clients with all aspects of employment policies and practices, including hiring, discipline and discharge, leaves, accommodation of disabilities, reductions in force, sexual harassment, internal investigations and other compliance issues.
Collective Bargaining Negotiations, Contract Administration and Responses to Union Organizing: Peter regularly represents unionized hospitals and public schools in their dealings with labor unions. Among his clients are the largest healthcare network in Massachusetts and some of the state's leading public schools. Peter frequently advises nonprofit agencies and for-profit corporations in responding to labor unions' efforts to organize the entities' employees.
Labor Arbitrations and Proceedings Before the National Labor Relations Board: Peter has recently obtained favorable arbitration decisions upholding a hospital's discharge of a nurse for dispensing medication without a physician's order, and approving a hospital's involuntary transfer of unionized employees from overstaffed units to understaffed units without providing operationally disruptive "bumping" rights. Peter has obtained multiple favorable rulings from the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C., in connection with appeals from decisions made by regional offices of the NLRB.
Educational Institutions: Peter has represented various educational institutions in connection with investigations by the Office of Civil Rights within the U.S. Department of Education, focused on allegedly inadequate Title IX procedures for the reporting of sexual harassment and insufficient institutional responses to actual harassment claims.
Government Relations/Campaign Finance Matters: Peter has successfully represented clients before the Massachusetts Ballot Law Commission and in connection with investigations by the Federal Elections Commission and the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission.