Rachel A. Gonzalez

Rachel Gonzalez represents management in traditional labor law, employment counseling and litigation.

Rachel regularly partners with clients and serves a strategic advisor on labor and employee relations issues. Rachel represents employers during union election campaigns, collective bargaining negotiations, arbitrations and before the National Labor Relations Board. She leads employer bargaining committees during collective bargaining negotiations. Rachel provides clients with advice on strike preparations and during strike injunction proceedings. Rachel also advises corporations on workforce planning during business changes including business sales, acquisitions, stock and asset purchases, and plant closings and relocations. She has represented management in matters involving the IBEW, CWA, UAW, IBT, IAM, SEIU, AFSCME, RWDSU, UFCW, USW, IATSE, Amalgamated Lithographers, Hotel Workers, IUOE, AFM and NOITU unions.

Rachel regularly counsels and trains employers on wage and hour issues, workplace investigations, the FMLA, the ADA accommodation process and compliance with other federal and state employment laws. She has represented employers in claims involving discrimination and retaliation under Title VII, ADA, NJLAD NYHRL, Section 1981 and USERRA; breach of contract; workers' compensation retaliation; wrongful discharge; negligent hiring and Section 301 claims, in state and federal courts and agencies. She also regularly advises foreign corporations establishing U.S. operations on federal, state and local employment and labor laws.

Prior to entering the legal profession, Rachel worked as a human resources professional in unionized and non-unionized facilities in the United States and Sweden. While in law school, Rachel worked with the National Labor Relations Board in Hartford, Connecticut.

Rachel serves in a leadership role with the Day Pitney Attorneys of Color Network and is the Firm's Hiring Chair. She is also a member of the Firm's Diversity Committee.