Gary J. Oberstein Email & Phone Number

Gary Oberstein served as the Managing Partner of Nixon Peabody’s Boston office, 2011- 2016, and currently serves as Senior Counsel. He has over 33 years of experience counseling employers in the many complex employment law obligations they face. These include, for example, preventing discrimination and harassment, and issues concerning employee hiring, retention, discipline and discharge, employment agreements, employee handbooks and policies, wage-hour, privacy, drug testing, safety, workplace investigations, non-competition agreements, lift-outs, reductions in force, workforce restructuring, and the labor and employment implications of mergers and acquisitions. He also regularly conducts on-site management and staff training programs concerning workplace sexual harassment, wage-hour audits, performance management, and many other employment issues. Gary has written and lectured extensively on a wide array of employment matters.Specialties: Employment law, wage-hour; discrimination; harassment; hiring; retention; discipline and discharge; employment agreements; employee handbooks and policies; privacy; drug testing; safety; workplace investigations; non-competition agreements; lift-outs; reductions in force (RIFs); workforce restructuring; counseling; management and staff training; workplace sexual harassment; performance management; mergers and acquisitions due diligence; WARN Act; wage-hour audits; FLSA compliance.

Listed skills include Employment Law, Employment Discrimination, Discrimination, Employee Handbooks, and 16 others.