Chris Foster advises leading companies and families in labor and employment matters.Chris has extensive experience navigating union organizing and decertification campaigns, unfair labor practice investigations, trials, and appeals. He provides strategic planning on the addition and divesting of unionized operations.Chris defends employers in arbitrations involving contract disputes and terminations, and against state and federal wage and hour, discrimination, harassment and wrongful termination claims.Chris also focuses on advising individuals, families, closely-held businesses, private foundations, and non-profits on employment issues, training, compliance, and risk mitigation in hiring and separation of employees, non-disclosure and privacy agreements, development of employee handbooks and policies/procedures, and related claims and litigation.Chris is an editor for the Developing Labor Law treatise and formerly served as a senior articles editor for the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law. During undergraduate, he studied economics and philosophy at the University of Oxford under a full, one-year scholarship from Santa Clara UniversityChris is pro bono labor counsel for the San Francisco Zoo and serves as the San Francisco office hiring partner.Attorney Advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.