Christopher Calsyn is a counsel in Crowell & Moring's Labor and Employment Group.
Chris regularly provides clients with litigation and counseling services in all facets of labor and employment law including:
- Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and state wage/hour statutes;
- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and state anti-discrimination statutes;
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA);
- Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA);
- Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA);
- Labor arbitration;
- Non-compete/non-solicitation agreements;
- Wrongful termination;
- Sexual harassment;
- Reductions-in-force; and
- Employee drug testing, discipline, and other workplace policies.
Clients Chris has recently worked with include: AT&T, Western Union, Valeo S.A., MedStar Health, Inc. and its subsidiary hospitals, Honeywell, and numerous other private and public companies.
Representative Experience
- Currently representing a Fortune 100 company in a nationwide wage and hour class action involving over 4,000 plaintiffs;
- Currently defending an international consulting firm in a putative class action in which plaintiffs are claiming they were misclassified as exempt employees under the FLSA;
- Obtained summary judgment dismissing plaintiff's claims of age and disability discrimination against multinational automobile parts manufacturer;
- Negotiated favorable settlement of union grievance filed against large manufacturer on behalf of a dismissed employee;
- Obtained summary judgment dismissing plaintiff’s allegations of race discrimination against an international aircraft parts manufacturer;
- Avoided litigation through successful counseling of multiple clients in handling FMLA leave requests and ADA reasonable accommodation requests brought by their employees; and
- Revised numerous employer policy manuals regarding issues as varied as employee leave to social networking/blogging policies.
In The News
In the October/November edition of My Business, Chris was quoted regarding inappropriate employee online conduct in an article entiled, "Managing Workplace Privacy in a Digital Age" by Beth Milito.