Labor and Employment


Your business depends on attracting and retaining the best talent available. From offering competitive employee benefits and negotiating with unions to resolving immigration and litigation issues, you need legal counsel who understands what the right outcome can mean for your business. With experience across a host of employment issues, Dykema helps our clients navigate the law and ensure that their greatest strength—talent—is secure.

Nationally ranked for labor and employment law

We are a leading labor and employment firm with "a very solid and capable team comprised of many subject matter experts." Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business


Building an efficient and effective business requires the development of your workforce through employment policies, job descriptions, employee training, employee evaluation systems, disciplinary and termination procedures, and compensation systems, among others.

We offer innovative tools such as diversity and inclusion training, workforce restructuring advisement, and compliance counseling, designed to guide organizations through complex day to day issues.

Our services, within the context of attorney-client privilege, are designed to give employers cost efficiency and budgetary certainty to manage ever-changing legal and regulatory requirements.

Latest News and Insights

Speaking Engagements4.16.26

Inventors as Employees: Managing the IP Created by Your Team

Mel Muskovitz will serve as a featured speaker for the MichBio IP & Legal Webinar Series event,…

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Press Mentions3.2.26

“Employers navigate tension between California protections and federal immigration enforcement”

Laura Worsinger was quoted in The Daily Journal article, “Employers navigate tension between…

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Blog Posts2.27.26

Flip-Flop: Feds Announce a Final Rule on Joint Employer Status and a Proposed Rule on Independent Contractor Status

Takeaways NLRB Returns to 2020 Joint Employer Status Test On February 26, 2026, the National Labor…

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