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Lawyer Overview

Jackie Holmes represents clients in a wide variety of occupational safety and health, traditional labor, and employment matters. Her experience includes litigating and resolving all phases of significant contested OSHA matters before administrative law judges and the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, representing clients in OSHA rulemaking proceedings, and assisting clients in a range of OSHA compliance issues. Jackie's practice has a particular emphasis on ergonomics, lockout/tagout, machine guarding, confined space, chemical process safety management, and a variety of industrial hygiene issues. She has also represented clients in traditional labor and employment matters before state and federal administrative agencies and in federal and state trial and appellate courts. She has coauthored a number of articles on workplace safety issues, with a particular focus on ergonomics and General Duty Clause enforcement. Her clients represent many diverse industries, including consumer product and chemical manufacturing, newspaper publishing, and retail sales.

Areas of Practice

• Labor & Employment
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Counseling & Litigation

Representative Cases

• Anderson v. Robinson Terminal Warehouse Corp., Case No. 2006-STA-00028 (DOL) , (2009)
• Commissioner of Labor v. Firestone Agricultural Products, Inc., Case No. 07IWD0S 018 , (2009)
• Commissioner of Labor v. Verizon Maryland Inc., Case No. M1380-030-07 , (2009)
• Reich v. Dayton Tire, a Division of Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc., 853 F. Supp. 376 (W.D. Okla. 1994)
• Reich, Secretary of Labor v. Dayton Tire, a Division of Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc., OSHRC Docket No. 93-3327 (1998)
• Secretary of Labor v. Dayton Tire, a Division of Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc., OSHRC Docket No. 94-1374 (1997)
• Secretary of Labor v. Firestone Building Products Corp., Case No. 04-0083 , (2009)
• Secretary of Labor v. Firestone Building Products Corp., Case Nos. 06-1161 and 06-1235 , (2009)
• Secretary of Labor v. Hudson Foods, Inc., OSHRC Case No. 98-0079 (1999) , (2009)
• Secretary of Labor v. Pepperidge Farm, Inc., OSHRC Docket No. 89-0265 (1997) , (2009)
• Secretary of Labor v. Verizon New England Inc., Case No. 08-0642 , (2009)
• The Washington Post and Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild Local No. 32035 a/w TNG Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO-CLC, Case Nos. 5 CA-33037 and 33503, 2008 WL 2901587 (N. L. R. B. Div. of Judges July 18, 2008) , (2009)
• Bobbie L. Sherrod, et al. v. General Motors Corporation, Case No. 1:92 CV 2036 (N.D. Ohio)
• 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.)
• General Motors v. UAW, C.A. No. 98-40246 (E.D. Mich. 1998)
• General Motors v. UAW, Proceeding before Umpire Roberts
• In re Albertson's, Inc. Employment Practices Litigation, MDL Docket No. 1215 (D. Idaho)
• Secretary of Labor v. International Paper Company, 1997-98 , (2009)
• United Food and Commercial Workers International Union v. Albertsons, Inc., United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, Case No. C06-813JLR , (2007)

West Practice Categories

Collective Bargaining, Labor Arbitration, Labor Disputes, Labor Law, Labor Legislation, Labor Relations Boards & Proceedings, Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA) -- Employee, Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA) -- Employer, Unfair Labor Practices, Unions, Wage & Hour Laws, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia
• New York

Education

• Loyola Marymount Univ - CA

Published Works

• ALERT: Supreme Court Upholds Provision in Labor Agreement Requiring Arbitration of Age Discrimination Claims, 2009

Address

51 Louisiana Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20001-2113

Phones

1.202.879.3620 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.202.626.1700 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com