Marta M. Fernandez

Marta Fernandez, a partner in the Labor & Employment Department at Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP, heads the labor and employment practice of JMBM's Global Hospitality Group® and serves as co-chair on JMBM's Latin America Hospitality Group. She focuses on management relations such as hiring the workforce of the owner's choice, collective bargaining for single as well as multi-employer bargaining units, neutrality agreements, and defense of unfair labor practice charges before the NLRB. She defends hotel owners in litigation claims such as employee claims of sexual harassment and discrimination and in wage and hour class action lawsuits.

Marta also represents hotel owners in the defense of administrative and litigation claims, such as employee claims of sexual harassment and discrimination and in wage and hour class action lawsuits. She advises employers in the implementation of preventative management strategies, such as executive training, arbitration enforcement and policies and procedures.

• Management labor and employment counsel to multi-national corporations in health care, hospitality, transportation, retail, banking and other service industries
• Trial counsel in numerous jury and court trials in all aspects of labor and employment-related litigation
• Successfully represented national corporate clients in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeal in overturning NLRB decisions
• Represents clients in collective bargaining and union representation matters throughout the United States
• Negotiated well over 75 collective bargaining agreements in the course of her career
• Clerk to the Honorable Robert J. Kelleher of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 1984