Marta Fernandez's practice focuses on advising management clients in all aspects of labor and employment law.

Her experience includes State and Federal labor and employment litigation, wage and hour issues, class actions, National Labor Relations Board practice, management/union relations, discrimination claims, administrative proceedings, executive compensation, compliance and government investigations and general advice and counseling for clients in labor and employment areas.

Marta's health care, hospitality, transportation, retail and service industry experience covers many areas as well, including damage control strategies, union prevention strategies; union negotiations; neutrality agreements; representation and decertification elections; arbitrations; NLRB trials; wage and hour audits; State, Federal and administrative trials; management training; and day-to-day counseling and advice.

Additionally, Marta heads the labor and employment practice of the Firm's Global Hospitality Group® and serves as co-chair on JMBM's Latin America Hospitality Practice Group.

Representative Experience:

• 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
• Represented clients in collective bargaining and union representation matters throughout the United States
• Clerk to the Honorable Robert J. Kelleher of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 1984

Marta Fernandez is a partner in the Labor & Employment Department at Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP and a senior member of the Global Hospitality Group®. A management labor lawyer with more than 25 years experience, Marta represents the interests of hotel owners nationwide. She specializes in representing hospitality industry clients in all aspects of labor and employment, including labor-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 National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). She has successfully represented national corporate clients in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeal in overturning NLRB decisions.

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. You can contact Marta at (310) 201-3534 or at mfernandez@jmbm.com.  

Marta Fernandez is a partner in the Labor & Employment Department at Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP and a senior member of the Global Hospitality Group®.  A management labor lawyer with more than 20 years experience, Marta represents the interests of hotel owners nationwide.  She specializes in representing hospitality industry clients in all aspects of labor and employment, including labor-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 National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).  She has successfully represented national corporate clients in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeal in overturning NLRB decisions.

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.  You can contact Marta at (310) 201-3534 or at mfernandez@jmbm.com.