Employee Handbook Best Practices in 2025 and Beyond: New Administration Impact; Recent Rulings, Enforcement Trends

Clients look to Ms. Walker for practical guidance to implement effective strategies and resolve the legal and operational challenges associated with employment-related matters. She advises clients on a broad range of employment-related matters, including handbook and policy drafting, leaves and accommodations, discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Ms. Walker is experienced in running internal investigations and conducting workplace training on employment-related topics such as sexual harassment and union avoidance.

Ms. Chase-Sosnoff is a principal in the Tampa office of Jackson Lewis P.C. She is committed to understanding her clients’ unique business needs in order to help owners, managers, and human resources professionals navigate issues that arise in all stages of the employer/employee relationship. Ms. Chase-Sosnoff's experience includes conducting investigations, drafting policies and contracts, and guiding clients through the day-to-day challenges of managing a dynamic workforce. She also helps multi-state employers comply with state-specific requirements, including wage and hour, drug testing, and leave laws. Ms. Chase-Sosnoff takes pride in helping businesses grow by providing practical guidance and legal advice on staying on the right side of the law when hiring new employees and expanding to new locations. In addition to providing proactive advice and counsel, she has represented employers in litigation involving all types of workplace law issues, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, disability accommodation, FMLA leave, wage and hour issues, and employment contract disputes. Ms. Chase-Sosnoff regularly appears before the EEOC and Florida state and federal courts. Her litigation experience has led her to successfully obtain summary judgment for a manufacturing company, a medical billing office, and a multinational media conglomerate in cases involving race, sex, and age discrimination, hostile work environment, and retaliation. 

Ms. Turner's litigation experience includes defending employers in wrongful discharge, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, invasion of privacy, defamation, and wage and hour suits in state and federal courts. She counsels, trains, and represents clients on a broad range of employment law issues, including hiring, review, and termination procedures; workplace investigations; discrimination, harassment, and retaliation issues; wage and hour law and FMLA issues. Ms. Turner also drafts and updates personnel policies, workplace privacy issues, employee handbooks, drug and alcohol policies, employment agreements, trade secret issues, and non-competition agreements.