Faculty & Research
Gregg Gilman
Partner, Co-Chair, Labor and Employment
Davis & Gilbert LLP
As Co-Chair of Davis & Gilbert’s Labor and Employment practice group, Gregg Gilman advises employers on all workplace-related matters. A significant portion of his practice is devoted to various labor and personnel issues, including wage and hour issues, preventive management, terminations, reductions in force, disciplinary measures, employment and termination agreements, executive compensation, harassment investigations, restrictive covenants and employment policies. Mr. Gilman also represents employers in state and federal courts and before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and state and local employment-rights agencies in race, sex, age, disability, retaliation and other discrimination cases as well as all other employment litigation. Recently, Mr. Gilman has defended restaurants in wage and hour class actions alleging improper pooling of tips, spread of hours and off the clock issues.
Mr. Gilman has negotiated collective bargaining agreements in the music, restaurant, social services, coal mining equipment and numerous other industries. He also represents employers before the National Labor Relations Board.
Mr. Gilman is the creator of Respect in the Workplace, an interactive training seminar on preventive management, including sexual harassment and workplace sensitivity training. He is a frequent guest lecturer on labor and employment law issues, presenter at the Cornell Hospitality conference, panelist at the Legal Roundtable for the Cornell School of Hotel Administration and a member of the Advisory Board for Cornell University’s center for Hospitality Research. Mr. Gilman is the co-author of Trying to Make Sense of Sexual Harassment Law After Oncale, Holman, and Rene and Retaliation: The Fastest-Growing Discrimination Claim, published in the Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly; author of Employers Considering Reductions in Force May Need To Reexamine Waiver Disclosures, published by Metropolitan Corporate Counsel; author of You Can Hire Based on Beauty – Within Reason, published by Advertising Age; and co-author of Will Garden Leaves Blossom in the States?, published by Employee Relations Law Journal.