Practices:

• Litigation
  • Labor and Employment
• Labor and Employment
  • Labor Relations
  • Employment Services

Experience

Seth Borden has represented management in traditional labor law matters for more than 10 years. His practice focuses on labor relations, collective bargaining, labor arbitration, NLRB investigations and litigation, and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) investigations and litigation.

Borden has been active on behalf of the business community during the debate over the Employee Free Choice Act. He has written extensively on the issue, spoken before numerous trade groups and chambers of commerce, and met with government officials to discuss management perspectives.

Borden maintains the blog Labor Relations Today, dedicated to tracking key legislative, executive and administrative regulatory developments that significantly impact how employers interact with their employees and labor unions.

Notable Engagements

• Helped employers develop comprehensive enterprise-wide labor relations strategies, and advised employers on dozens of union organizing efforts.
• Negotiated collective-bargaining agreements for employers in the telecommunications, food service, produce wholesale and gaming industries.
• Served as lead counsel in numerous arbitrations involving issues of discipline, termination, contract interpretation, discrimination and harassment, in the express freight delivery, food services, healthcare and movie exhibition industries.
• Represented employers in administrative proceedings before the E.E.O.C., N.Y.S. Division of Human Rights, N.Y.C. Human Rights Commission, U.S. and N.Y.S. Department of Labor, the New York Attorney General and others.
• Represented employers in state and federal court litigation regarding alleged liability arising under EEO laws, ERISA, FMLA, FLSA and other federal and state employment statutes.

Education

• J.D., Brooklyn Law School, 1997
• B.A., Brandeis University, 1995

Admitted

• New York
• Eastern District of New York
• Southern District of New York