Gage provides management-side representation
and legal counsel to clients in all matters pertaining to labor and
employment law. This includes both private sector and public sector
employers, including cities, counties, special districts, hospitals,
restaurants, and packing houses, among others.
Gage represents a range
of employers not only in court, but before the Department of Fair
Employment and Housing, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the
Public Employment Relations Board, the California Unemployment Insurance
Appeals Board, the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, and the
California Labor Commissioner. Gage is experienced in representing and
advising employers on issues pertaining to employment
discrimination/harassment/retaliation, disability accommodation and
family/medical leaves of absence, wage and hour law, employee discipline
and due process, the meet and confer process, labor relations and
negotiations, and the preparation of employment guidelines and
policies. In 2009, Gage was chosen as a
Northern California Rising
Star in the field of Employment & Labor Law.
Gage is a popular
speaker and trainer and has presented numerous presentations,
preventative trainings, and workshops for employers, agencies, and trade
associations on the following topics, among others: Preventing
Workplace Harassment, Disability and Leave Laws, Performance Management,
Employee Discipline, Employee Performance Evaluations, Generational
Diversity and Succession Planning, Ethics in Public Service, Annual
Audit of Personnel Rules, Law Enforcement Employment, Embracing
Diversity, Wage and Hour Laws, and Legal Issues with Reductions in
Force.
He has also published
articles on current labor and employment law cases and trends in The
Daily Journal and the California Public Employee Relations
Journal, and is a frequent author for LCW’s semi-monthly
Personnel File newsletter.
Gage is a member of the
University of California at Davis School of Law Alumni Association Board
of Directors and the Rotary Club of Fresno. In 2008, he was honored
with the Young Alumni of the Year Award by the University of Notre Dame
Alumni Association. Prior to joining Liebert Cassidy Whitmore, Gage
practiced law in the Fresno office of a large national labor and
employment law firm.
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