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Partner

Lawyer Overview

Harry Johnson's practice and experience covers the full range of labor and employment law, including wage-hour complex litigation, traditional labor, other employment litigation, and client counseling and advice.

In the traditional labor field, Harry's experience includes the representation of clients in NLRB unfair labor practice and representation hearings, union representation campaigns, union corporate campaigns, labor arbitrations, executive contract arbitrations, assistance with collective bargaining, and Section 10(j) injunction hearings.

In the employment arena, his practice includes litigation of California and federal wage-hour cases, the majority of which are class or collective actions. In addition, Harry has wide-ranging experience in administrative DLSE cases, California and federal employment discrimination cases, as well as general civil employment litigation, arbitration, and mediation.

Harry is the practice coordinator of the roughly dozen, management-side attorneys comprising the Los Angeles Office's Labor & Employment Practice.

Harry has counseled clients in confronting or solving issues posed by California and federal labor and employment law. In the unionized context, these issues span an array of topics, including information requests, collective bargaining subjects, representation campaigns, alleged anti-union discrimination/coercion, and successorship issues. In the specific area of discrimination law, he has provided guidance to employers in issues such as disparate impact and treatment claims of alleged racial, sexual, age, national origin, disability, and sexual orientation discrimination; harassment claims and investigation; retaliation claims; and disability accommodation and leaves. Harry also has counseled clients in state and federal wage-hour law issues (including California's unique overtime and meal/rest break regime), arbitration policies, family and other protected leaves, handbook review, employee competition issues, plant closings, the labor aspects of mergers and acquisitions, layoffs, and employment contract drafting and claims.

Representative clients include Albertsons, Astra Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, BMC Software, Bridgestone/Firestone, Bristol Farms, Candy & Candy, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, The Detroit Newspapers, The Deutsch Co., Ecolab, Edelbrock, Extreme, Inc., Federated Department Stores, General Electric, General Mills, General Motors, Hancor, Harman International, Kaiser Aluminum, Kapiolani Hospital, Knight Ridder, Levitz Furniture, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles Superior Court, Los Angeles Unified School District, Lennar, Libbey-Owens-Ford, Novatel Wireless, Ralphs Grocery Company, Reuben Donnelley Co., Sizzler Restaurants, SOS Security, St. Josephs Health Systems, Sutter Home Winery, Target, TVN Entertainment, Verizon Business, Verizon Communications, Verizon Wireless, and The Washington Post.

Areas of Practice

• Labor & Employment
• Collective Bargaining, Contract Enforcement & Union Organizing
• Labor & Employment Health Care Law
• NLRB Proceedings & Appeals
• Health Care
• Litigation/Health Care
• Labor & Employment/Health Care

Representative Cases

• Baum v. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Case No. 3:07-CV-0090 (W.D. Pa. 2009)
• Aguilera et al. v. Albertson’s, Trade Dispute No. 03-014
• Albertsons, Inc. v. United Food And Commercial Workers Locals 135, 324, 770, 1036, 1167, 1428 and 1442, Sup. Ct. Orange County
• Allen v. Bloomingdale's, Case No. BC340208 (Los Angeles Sup. Ct.)
• Allen v. Bloomingdale's, Case No. BC340208 (Los Angeles Sup. Ct.)
• Angela Shaw v. Raymond Mendoza
• Brody v. Astra-Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Case No. 2:06-CV-06882 (C.D. CA 2008)
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Case No. 31-RC-8180 (NLRB)
• Colburn, et al. v. Albertson's, Inc., Case No. BC 299391 (L.A. Sup. Ct.)
• County of Los Angeles v. Los Angeles County Employee Relations Commission et al.
• General Mills, Yoplait Division and Bakery Confectionery & Tobacco Workers & Grain Millers Local 37, Case No. 21-RC-20169
• Hicks v. Macy's Dept. Stores, Inc., 2006 WL 2595941 (N.D.Cal., 2006)
• Hummel v. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Case No. 1:07-CV-5473 (S.D.NY. 2007)
• International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. Emery Worldwide, Case No. 31-CA-23288 (NLRB 1998)
• Knightridder.com, Inc. (a.k.a. Knight Ridder Digital) cases, Case Nos. 32-CA-18052-1 et al.
• Local 2222, International Brotherhood. of Electrical Workers v. Bell Atlantic NYNEX Mobile et al., Case No. 1-CA-33023 et al. (NLRB 1995)
• Mansury v. Macy's West, Inc., Case No. BC337238 (Sup. Ct., Los Angeles County)
• Marlene Oberfoell v. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Case No. BC 332075, Cal. Sup. Ct., LA County
• Melnik v. JB Oxford & Co.,(CA. Sup. Ct.: SC059666, Ct. Ap. B152347); Dufour v. Sizzler USA Restaurants (SC076606); Ingram v. Sizzler (BC305411); Alvarez v. Sizzler (BC308754); Castillo v. Sizzler (BC315143)
• Mitchell v. General Mills, Case No. 05-19965 JG (DLSE action); Case No. COM 02C02479 (Cal. Super. Ct. L.A. County); and Case No. BV 024557 (Appellate)
• Nassif v. Lennar Sales Corp.,Case No. BC390913 (Los Angeles Sup. Ct.)
• Pitchford v. Los Angeles Unified School District, Sup. Ct. L.A. County, Cal. Ct. of Appeal
• Portugal v. Macy's West, Case No. BC 324247, Cal. Superior Ct., LA County
• Roe v. Ecolab
• United Teachers of Los Angeles v. Los Angeles Unified School District, Case No. LA-CE-4378-E (PERB)
• Unsell v. Bloomingdale's, Case No. BC 328933 (Sup. Ct., Los Angeles County)
• Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, Communications Workers of America, Local 37083 (DecisionOne Corporation), Case No. 19-RC-13728 (1999)
• Acquisition by Investor Group
• Acquisition by Wendel Investissement , (2007)
• Acquisition of California Wholesale Material Supply
• Corporate Campaign
• Industrywide Labor Negotiations
• Labor Advice
• Sale of Metal Connectors Business
• Unfair Labor Practice Charges Surrounding Sale of Business
• Wage-Hour and Employment Law
• Wage-Hour Counseling , (2009)

West Practice Categories

Collective Bargaining, Disability, Elder Law, Employment Law -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employer, Food & Drug Administration, Health & Health Care Law, Hospital Law, Labor Arbitration, Labor Disputes, Labor Law, Labor Legislation, Labor Relations Boards & Proceedings, Litigation & Appeals, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, Nursing Home, Social Security -- Disability, Unfair Labor Practices, Unions, Wage & Hour Laws, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act

Bar Admissions

• California
• District of Columbia
• Virginia

Education

• Harvard University

Published Works

• Creating Workable Arbitration Agreements in the Post - Gentry Era, coauthor, Employee Relations Law Journal, 2008
• Union Access to Private Property: California Supreme Court Rules Shopping Malls Cannot Prohibit Union Protesters from Urging Boycott of Stores, 2008
• Individual Arbitration, Focus & Forum, Daily Journal, 2007
• Kentucky River Trilogy: Recent NLRB Decisions Clarify the Definition of the Term “Supervisor” Under the NLRA, 2006
• 2005 California Employment Law Legislative Update, 2005
• California Tinkers with its “Sue Your Boss” Law, 2004
• California's New Plant Shutdown/Mass Layoff Law, 2002
• Who Let the Weingarten Rights Out? The National Labor Relations Board Compounds Earlier Error by Supreme Court, 1 Michigan State Law Review 149, 2002

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