Employment & HR Services

IndUS Counsel routinely advises startups and emerging companies on diverse labor and employment matters, executive compensation issues and independent contractor arrangements. We also advise employees on employment disputes, including severance negotiations. We offer a full suite of outsourced human resources services, including pre-onboarding matters, employee onboarding issues, including I-9 verification and E-verification, ongoing HR functions such as employee communications, employee document and database management, experience letter coordination, benefits administration, payroll processing and exit documentation. Our attorneys are also experienced in employment advisory as well as representation before California EDD, DOL and Labor Commissioner hearings.

SERVICES

Personnel Contracts

  • Employment and independent contractor agreements
  • Employment handbooks, manuals and policies
  • Employee confidentiality and proprietary rights agreements
  • Independent contractor/consultant agreements
  • Secondment letter agreements
  • Temporary employee staffing agreements
  • Unpaid internship agreements
  • PEO client service agreements
  • Tolling agreements

Outsourced HR Services

  • Pre-onboarding coordination, including background checks
  • Employee onboarding and set up, including I-9 compliance E-verification, and HR reporting and compliance
  • Ongoing HR management, including employee communications, HR database and document management, and experience letter coordination
  • Benefits administration, including vendor shopping, and 401(k) and health plan selection and enrollment
  • Payroll coordination, including timesheet management, leave management and bonus management
  • Employee terminations and exit coordination 

Employment Advisory

  • Classification of employees and contractors
  • Exempt and non-exempt employee issues
  • Wage and hour laws
  • Leaves of absence, including sick leaves
  • Discrimination issues
  • Employee separation and severance issues
  • Contract breaches and remedies
  • Non-compete and non-solicitation issues
  • Intellectual property (IP) and invention assignments
  • Cross-border employment

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

  • Structure, set up and administer equity incentive plans and equity awards, including stock options, restricted stock, restricted stock units (RSUs), phantom stock, and stock appreciation rights (SARs)
  • Global equity plans
  • Deferred compensation issues
  • Executive offer letters and executive employment agreements
  • Golden parachute and senior executive severance negotiations