Complex Workforce Merger

Recently Adler Pollock & Sheehan was asked to assist a state agency that was acquiring a municipal agency with all the various labor and employment law issues that would arise as a result.  The employees of the municipal agency, who had theretofore been municipal employees would now be working for the private sector manager of the state agency.  Complicating matters was that the employees of the municipal agency were employed in two bargaining units, while the employees of the private sector manager were employed in five different bargaining units, and all of the various bargaining units in both agencies were represented by different labor unions.  Adler Pollock & Sheehan was able to successfully navigate a merger of the two units of employees employed by the municipal agency into the four private sector units employed by the stage agency’s management company without any disruption in the newly-merged operation.  Adler Pollock & Sheehan’s creative and direct approach to the myriad of issues involved in the merger was a key ingredient in that merger’s success.