Charles O. Zuver, Jr.

How Charles Helps Clients

For nearly twenty years, Charles O. Zuver, Jr. has represented management in both traditional and non-traditional areas of labor and employment law. Charles provides counsel to union and non-union employers. His practice ranges from proactive counseling and drafting of employment policies, handbooks and employee agreements to representing employers before the NLRB, CalPERB, United States Courts of Appeals, and in labor arbitrations. 

Charles regularly advises his clients regarding compliance with the NLRA, the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the federal and California WARN Act, wage and hour law, withdrawal liability, and benefits issues for municipal clients. He also assists clients in maintaining a union-free workplace and has experience handling labor arbitrations and unfair labor practice charges, ranging from contract interpretation to disciplinary and discharge issues. 

Charles has represented health care employers (hospitals and skilled nursing facilities), logistics companies (stevedoring and trucking companies), warehouse operations, utilities, a retail establishment, hotel management companies, cities and water districts, theaters, a credit union and entertainment companies.

What Clients Can Expect

Charles assists clients in understanding the issues facing them and work with them to provide solutions to best address their needs. 

I am a former NLRB attorney and traditional labor attorney with over twenty years experience in handling matters before the NLRB.

Outside the Office

When not working, Charles likes to spend time with his wife and pets, traveling, attending Chargers games and University of Hawaii volleyball matches. He also enjoys golf, the gym and reading books concerning history.

Proof Points

• Represented an auto dealership before the NLRB and later the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and later assisted the client in persuading the union to disclaim interest in a unit it represented
• Represented an operator of a warehouse mixing center in defeating an organizing drive and associated unfair practice charges 
• Represented an international company in defeating an organizing drive at a number of facilities in Southern California
• Assisted a unionized employer settle a suit by a Taft Hartley Plan over alleged missed pension contributions
• Assisted a municipality in labor arbitration by a union representing police defeat a grievance alleging the employer failed to properly compensate employees for overtime under the FLSA and the parties' labor contract
• Assisted a municipality in settling an FLSA collective action alleging the failure to properly pay overtime for failure to include cash-in-lieu of medical benefits in the regular rate of pay for purposes of calculating overtime
• First chaired numerous collective bargaining agreements for municipalities, water districts and private sector employers
• Represented several hospitals in opposing an application for enforcement of an NLRB order in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Assisted employers in drafting and review of purchase and sale agreements for unionized properties with a specific focus on minimizing possible liability for existing pension plans 
• Assisted clients in closing unionized facilities