Jeff Englander has provided sage advice, counsel and representation in employment matters to a broad range of employers and business clientele for almost half a century.
Jeff has consummate experience in litigating employment discrimination matters before federal and state courts, as well as federal, state and local administrative agencies charged with investigating and remediating discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims. Clients look to Jeff to handle their matters before federal, state and local agencies charged with enforcement of wage and hour, occupational safety and labor laws, as well as virtually all others involving regulation of the workplace. Notably, he is also a seasoned practitioner in all aspects of traditional labor-management relations, having practiced extensively before the National Labor Relations Board, including full evidentiary hearings with respect to representational matters and unfair labor practice trials.
Jeff routinely counsels clients with respect to a wide range of employment-related issues, including terminations, downsizing, plant closings and internal investigations of employee misconduct and is regularly called upon to supervise or conduct such investigations where allegations of sexual harassment or other workplace irregularities have been asserted.
He has negotiated and drafted innumerable severance agreements and concludes a large number of significant settlements each year on behalf of high placed executives. As an advisor to employers and their HR Departments, Jeff has utilized role play as a training tool and a means of improving his clients’ ability to interact with their workforces to achieve statutory compliance, assist in internal investigations and succeed in the process of cooperative dialogues with staff members who may require reasonable accommodations in order to work to maximum effectiveness.
Having begun his career in the practice of "traditional" labor law, Jeff has considerable experience in practice before the National Labor Relations Board and in all facets of effective labor-management relations, including contract and grievance administration, arbitration of labor disputes and preventative labor relations. He has been trial counsel in innumerable proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board, successfully defending employers in unfair labor practice trials as well as in connection with every conceivable facet of the litigation of questions concerning representation, including decertification of bargaining representatives and unit clarification. For many years, he has represented a significant number of interstate and local transportation companies in connection with such issues.
Jeff is a strong advocate of alternative dispute resolution, which he has successfully utilized on behalf of numerous clients in court-sponsored, as well as private, mediations. He is a frequent contributor and lecturer on a variety of workplace issues. An avid and accomplished photographer with several shows to his credit, Jeff's photographs may be found hanging in the firm's common areas.
Jeff was an intern Law Clerk to Hon. Jack B. Weinstein, U.S.D.J., E.D.N.Y. in 1974, and began his career with Friedlander, Gaines, Cohen & Rosenberg, LLP, first as an associate and from 1981 as a partner.