Britt-Marie Cole-Johnson

Practice Areas

Employment, Immigration, Employment Litigation and Administrative Advocacy, Employment Counseling and Compliance, Noncompetition Agreements and Trade Secrets, Exempt Organizations, Employment Litigation, Internal Investigations and Corporate Compliance, Workplace Investigations

Career

Britt-Marie Cole-Johnson is a member of the firm's Labor, Employment, Benefits + Immigration Group as well as the Managing Committee. She focuses her practice on counseling private sector employers, ranging from NYSE and NASDAQ companies, multi-national corporations, nonprofit health care organizations, and educational institutions to manufacturers, in all areas of employment law. She handles sensitive, high-risk personnel issues and investigations as well as compliance and training.

Britt-Marie regularly advises boards of directors, senior management, and human resources professionals regarding personnel policies, affirmative action compliance, pay equity, discipline and terminations, wage and hour issues, disability and reasonable accommodations, leaves of absence, employment contracts, unemployment, severance and separation agreements, reductions in force, and workplace health and safety issues. She also represents employers across various industries in litigation involving discrimination, wrongful termination, retaliation, and other employment claims.

Britt-Marie is a trained workplace investigator and regularly conducts, manages, and provides advice regarding workplace investigations involving all types of employment-related issues, particularly those requiring Board of Director and senior management involvement and high-profile matters. She serves as a faculty member for the Association of Workplace Investigators and frequently gives presentations on workplace investigations for Society of Human Resource Management chapters, the Association of Workplace Investigators, and other professional groups, as well as firm clients.

Britt-Marie represents employers in claims of discrimination, wrongful termination, workers' compensation retaliation, and other employment disputes and litigation, including affirmative action compliance evaluations involving the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.

Professional Memberships

Association of Workplace Investigators, Board of Directors

Personal

Teach for America - Connecticut and Oak Hill Boards of Directors