Ms. Goodboe counsels and represents clients in all aspects of traditional labor law, including positive employee relations, National Labor Relations Board representation elections and campaigns, unfair labor practice charges and actions under the Labor-Management Relations Act.
She regularly assists with effective auditing, negotiating and administrating collective bargaining agreements, including handling numerous arbitrations involving discharge, discipline, sub-contracting and/or removal of bargaining unit work, recall rights, plant shutdown and other contractual issues. She also advises clients regarding strikes (including pre-strike planning and post-strike issues), “reserve gates,” corporate campaigns and boycotts.
She counsels and defends individual and class action federal and state employment litigation under Title VII of the Civil Right Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Equal Pay Act, and corresponding state statutes. She provides compliance training and advice relative to such statutes, covenants not to compete, wrongful discharge, employment policies, affirmative action requirements under Executive Order 11246, constitutional claims under 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983, as well as other employment-related issues.
Experience
Michigan
Virginia
U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
Education and Honors
- Virginia Business, Virginia Legal Elite, Labor & Employment (2006)
Professional Activities
- Virginia Bar Association (Labor & Employment Law Section)
- American Bar Association (Labor & Employment Law Section)
- Federal Bar Association
- I’Anson-Hoffman Inn of Court XXVII
In The News
- December 2011 - Labor & Employment, American Health Lawyers Association - "Update On Specialty Healthcare"
- July 31, 2008 - Law360 - "New Alternatives Force Employers to Rethink Rules"
- 2008 - Working With Government Agencies In Labor Law - "Improving Client Outcomes Through Improved Communication"
