Mr. Neufeld is a Partner in the law firm of Best Best & Krieger LLP in Riverside, California. He focuses his practice on the representation of management in all aspects of employment law. He is a member of the Labor Law Section of the California State Bar and the American Bar Associations. In addition, he is a management member of the American Bar Association Committee on State and Local Government Bargaining and Employment Law.
Mr. Neufeld provides timely advice to clients on all aspects of personnel management, including employee termination, discipline and grievance matters, employee handbooks, employment contracts, personnel policies such as sexual harassment and drug and alcohol testing, and compliance with the many constantly changing state and federal employment laws, including the collective bargaining laws, the Family Leave Acts, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act and many other laws. He also advises clients on wage and hour issues, workplace violence issues, employee and applicant privacy issues and drafts documents for all stages of employee disciplinary matters. In addition, he represents clients in responding to complaints from the Department of Labor, Office for Civil Rights, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Department of Fair Employment and Housing. He strives to provide practical solutions that resolve employee problems quickly, efficiently and at the lowest cost possible, while complying with all relevant employment laws and due process requirements.
Mr. Neufeld has extensive experience in representing employers with employee relations and collective bargaining. He has provided negotiating services to many clients, both large and small. These services include acting as chief negotiator, drafting and evaluation of proposals, in-service of management on new agreements and counseling of the management negotiations team on how to avoid unfair labor practice charges and employee concerted actions. In addition, he represents employers before the National Labor Relations Board and the Public Employment Relations Board.
Mr. Neufeld conducts in-house training seminars for managers and supervisors on employment topics, such as documenting employee performance, identification and elimination of sexual harassment and lawful employee terminations. An integral part of his services is the development of effective and lawful personnel policies and procedures tailored to meet the specific needs of each employer. He devotes substantially all of his practice to representing employers in labor and employment matters.
Mr. Neufeld joined Best Best & Krieger LLP as a first year associate in 1986. He graduated, with honors, from the University of California at Riverside with a Bachelor of Science degree in Administrative Studies. He later graduated from UCLA School of Law with a Juris Doctorate degree.