Labor & Employment

When the facts underlying complex labor and employment disputes must be uncovered and clarified, CRA’s Labor and Employment practice has the ideal expertise for the task. From single-litigant to multiple-plaintiff and class action lawsuits, we address all economic facets of employment litigation.

Our consultants provide in-depth analyses, advisory services, expert reports, and testimony on behalf of preeminent law firms, Fortune 500 companies, and government agencies. We also help employers:

• Conduct proactive analyses of employment and contracting practices
• Monitor consent decrees and settlement agreements
• Design information systems to track employment data

Our specialty is applying statistical techniques to the analysis of employment practices such as compensation, hiring, promotion, and termination as those practices relate to gender, race, age, and ethnic origin discrimination. Adept at working with both plaintiffs and defendants, we assess whether employment data provide statistical support for allegations of discrimination.

We have extensive experience analyzing liability and assessing damages under:

• The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
• California overtime laws
• Other state-specific wage and hour laws

Our specialists work with payroll, HRIS, and time-clock data in assessing the value of unpaid overtime, off-the-clock work, missed meals and rest periods, lost vacation days, and failure to pay prevailing wages.

We are skilled at communicating the results of analyses clearly and succinctly to courts and regulatory bodies, and we are also able to tap industry, functional, and subject-matter expertise in other CRA practices to deliver unparalleled support for any project.