Practice Areas

Businesses and municipalities need attorneys to handle the often-complex array of laws and regulations they must abide by. N. Stotler Law is fully prepared to help with a variety of employment law-related issues, including employee complaints made to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) or the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (PHRC). Attorney Stotler will be ready to defend employers in state or federal courts.

Attorney Neva Stotler has experience implementing collective bargaining agreements, negotiating in collective bargaining, and managing employee grievances.

Employers are required to pay employees fair wages for the hours they work, including overtime pay. Whether your employees are paid hourly or on an annual salary, Attorney Stotler will work to ensure your compensation system is legally sound. You also need to have a standardized wage increase system in place to eliminate subjectivity or ambiguity in the process. N. Stotler Law  is prepared to handle pay equity and employee classification issues under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

When hiring and recruiting, it is important that employers follow all state and federal non-discrimination laws. Both the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (PHRC) outline that discrimination during the recruitment or hiring process is illegal. N. Stotler Law is ready to help when you are ready to hire. to devise a plan that ensures you go about finding employees that are suitable for your organization in a completely legal manner.

All employees and supervisors must be properly trained for both internal and external employment issues. This training protects employees as well as employers, and include issues related to discrimination and harassment in the workplace as well as best practices for supervisors.

Company and municipal policies are the backbones of the organization. N. Stotler Law is ready to help entities review, update, or create new policies that meet their needs. Whether your organization’s policies need minor revision or a complete re-write, or you are starting from scratch, Attorney Neva Stotler is ready to help.

When an employer receives a complaint from an employee or an outside regulatory agency, the incident must be properly investigated. Businesses and municipalities need a competent professional by their side to investigate any allegations of sexual harassment, discrimination, wage violations, police misconduct, or other wrongdoing.

Every employer needs to have a uniform system in place concerning disciplinary issues as well as incidents of employee separation, severance, and termination. Without a proper way to handle these issues, employers could be open to liability. N. Stotler Law has the ability to review and draft any disciplinary and termination policies and can also conduct disciplinary or termination proceedings.

Local governments employ many people to ensure that government services are provided to the community. N. Stotler Law has worked as legal counsel for various municipal agencies and understands the issues they face. This includes strategic planning and defending zoning and land use issues, intergovernmental cooperation agreements, employee due process hearings, contract review and procurement issues, Sunshine Act and Right to Know Law, and more.

COVID-19 has changed the way that companies and municipalities operate, including opening up questions of leave, remote work and even liability for employee illnesses or death. At N. Stotler Law, we are ready to help your organization create policies and procedures meant to address the impacts of COVID-19.