Profile

Jonathan Crotty has been a successful counselor and problem solver for large and small employers in the Carolinas and beyond for over 20 years. He heads Parker Poe’s Employment and Benefits practice group and represents employers in all aspects of the employment relationship, from hiring to discharge.

Mr. Crotty provides guidance to employers as they navigate the complex array of laws and regulations applicable to the employment relationship, including employment discrimination laws, OSHA compliance, FMLA, and wage and hour matters. If employers face legal or administrative claims resulting from their employees and employment practices, he defends and resolves those disputes in line with the client’s goals and expectations.

Experience Highlights

• Federal and North Carolina OSHA compliance, administrative citations and litigation, including representation of employers before OSHA review commissions.
• Fair Labor Standards Act and state wage and hour claims, including compliance reviews, audits, and employee exemption determinations.
• Americans with Disabilities Act compliance and defense of discrimination and failure to accommodate claims.
• Affirmative action plan drafting and compliance, OFCCP audits, and administrative defense of claims against government contractors.
• Transactional employment matters, including preparation of employment contracts, restrictive covenants, employee handbooks and employment policies, employee separation agreements and employment issues relating to corporate merger and acquisition activities.
• Counseling and advising human resources professionals and other corporate executives and managers with respect to individual employee issues, including discipline and termination.
• Employment and other legal issues unique to the transportation industry, including DOT driver safety compliance.

Representative Matters:

Some of Mr. Crotty’s recent representative matters include:

• Successfully represented a Fortune 500 company in the negotiation and settlement of systemic discrimination claims before the OFCCP, relating to alleged discriminatory hiring practices by a government contractor. The settlement included innovative multi-location hiring procedures intended to correct the hiring discrepancies.
• Obtained dismissal of OSHA administrative charges against a general contractor based on alleged safety violations by one of its subcontractors, through a detailed reconstruction of worksite safety conditions and compliance responsibilities.
• Convinced the EEOC to vacate a previous “for cause” ADA discrimination determination based on drug testing and employee reinstatement procedures.
• Represented a Fortune 500 employer faced with complex executive employment agreement issues relating to its acquisition of a competitor, including successful negotiations with multiple executives of the target company resulting in retention of key personnel through closing of the transaction and beyond.

News

• Forty-Four Parker Poe Attorneys Named 2013 NC Super Lawyers
  January 18, 2013
• 74 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2013
  August 23, 2012
• Chambers USA 2012 Ranks Parker Poe as Leading Law Firm
  June 7, 2012
• Forty-Two Parker Poe Attorneys Named as 2012 NC Super Lawyers
  January 20, 2012
• 69 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2012
  September 6, 2011
• Thirty-Seven Parker Poe Attorneys Named NC Super Lawyers for 2011
  January 25, 2011
• Parker Poe Ranked in Top Charlotte Companies with Best 401K Plans
  November 10, 2010
• 61 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2011
  August 18, 2010
• Law & Politics Names 36 Parker Poe Attorneys as Super Lawyers
  January 28, 2010
• Podcast: ADAAA Proposed Regulations for Definition of Disability
  October 30, 2009
• 55 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers®
  July 30, 2009
• Banks Work to Pare Payrolls Without Facing Lawsuits
  Charlotte Business Journal
  May 29, 2009
• Forty-Six Attorneys Named Super Lawyers
  January 26, 2009
• Twenty-One Parker Poe Attorneys Among "Legal Elite" for 2009
  January 1, 2009
• Parker Poe Increases Number of Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers in America
  October 1, 2008
• More than 50 Parker Poe Attorneys among Business Leader's Top Lawyers
  September 24, 2008
• How to: Negotiate a Noncompete Agreement
  Charlotte Business Journal
  April 25, 2008
• Twenty-One Parker Poe Attorneys Named Super Lawyers
  January 28, 2008
• Federal Court Overturns Hours of Service Rules
  Trucking and Transportation Law Update
  July 26, 2007
• New Requirements, Risks & Strategies for Hospitality Industry Employers
  March 14, 2005
• Parker Poe Attorneys Honored as The Best Lawyers in America and the "Legal Elite" in North Carolina
  February 28, 2005
• South Carolina Enacts "At-Will"/Handbook Statute 2. Changes to FLSA Overtime Regulations
  EmployNews
  May 18, 2004
• North Carolina Court Upholds Liquidated Damages Clause as Alternative to Covenant not to Compete in Physician Contract
  January 22, 2003

Events & Speaking Engagements

• Public Conversations Series - Social Media: Taming the Beast
  February 15, 2011
  CenterStage@NoDa, Charlotte, NC

Memberships

• Charlotte Historic District Commission
  Chair, 2006-2010