One of 200 lawyers to be recognized by Human Resource Executive magazine as the Nation’s Most Powerful Employment Attorneys, John counsels and represents employers on labor and employment issues helping them achieve and maintain legal compliance, while improving employee engagement and workplace productivity.
With years of experience advising credit unions, banks and other financial institutions, John provides his clients practical, real-world advice, mindful of the need to balance the legal “ideal” with a client’s operational reality. He focuses on:
Preventative counseling concerning compliance with federal and state employment laws, including wage and hour, EEO, leaves and other reasonable accommodation concerns, and corrective actions and terminations
Administrative proceedings before the EEOC, Division of Human Rights, NLRB, and federal and state departments of labor
Training for executives, board members, supervisors and employees on a wide variety of topics including sexual and other workplace harassment, wage and hour compliance, performance management, progressive discipline and terminations, recruiting, hiring and retention, reasonable accommodations, drug and alcohol concerns and other ADA and FMLA issues, social media, technology and privacy
Personnel policies and procedures and employee handbooks
Workplace investigations relating to discrimination, harassment, retaliation, ethics violations and other workplace misconduct
Contracts/agreements including employment agreements, retention agreements, executive contracts, confidentiality, nonsolicitation and noncompetition agreements, and severance agreements
Business transitions, such as mergers, acquisitions and reductions in force
John M. Bagyi and James Holahan, "What Employees Don't Know Hurts Everyone," New York Law Journal Special Report, March 9, 2014
John M. Bagyi and W.S Becker, "The Civil Rights Act of 1991," Human Resources Encyclopedia, Pfeiffer, 2011
"Preventing Harassment," Security Management, January 2009
"Legal Q&A," CRHRA Newsletter, 2001-2004
"Employee handbooks: a tool to avoid employer liability," Professional Insurance Agents Magazine, June 2004
John M. Bagyi and Peter A. Jones, "Blowing the Whistle: Dealing with Sarbanes Oxley and Beyond," HR Review, New York State Society for Human Resource Management, Spring/Summer 2004
"Union Organizing - what you need to know now, Tools for the Trade," New York State Association of Health Care Providers, May/June 2004
John M. Bagyi and Peter A. Jones, "What HR Professionals Need To Know About HIPAA's Privacy Regulations," HR Review, New York State Society for Human Resource Management, Fall/Winter 2002
"Employee Handbooks Have Become A Necessary Tool For Employers," Capital District Business Review, July 5, 2002
"New Union Election Law Affects Some Employers," The Human Resource Line, The Business Council of New York State, February 2002
John M. Bagyi and Louis P. DiLorenzo, "Employment Litigation in Upstate New York: Results of the Bond, Schoeneck & King Study," New York Employment Law & Practice, October 2001 Contributor, Paul Grossman, et al., Employment Discrimination Law (Supp. 2000; Supp. 2002)
"Board of Education of Kiryas Joel v. Grumet: Misconstruing the Status Quo as a Neutral Baseline," 60 Albany Law Review 543, 1996
"Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick: The Court of Appeals' Voice of Compassion," 59 Albany Law Review 1913, 1996
One of 200 lawyers to be recognized by Human Resource Executive magazine as the Nation’s Most Powerful Employment Attorneys, John counsels and represents employers on labor and employment issues helping them achieve and maintain legal compliance, while improving employee engagement and workplace productivity.
With years of experience advising credit unions, banks and other financial institutions, John provides his clients practical, real-world advice, mindful of the need to balance the legal “ideal” with a client’s operational reality. He focuses on:
Preventative counseling concerning compliance with federal and state employment laws, including wage and hour, EEO, leaves and other reasonable accommodation concerns, and corrective actions and terminations
Administrative proceedings before the EEOC, Division of Human Rights, NLRB, and federal and state departments of labor
Training for executives, board members, supervisors and employees on a wide variety of topics including sexual and other workplace harassment, wage and hour compliance, performance management, progressive discipline and terminations, recruiting, hiring and retention, reasonable accommodations, drug and alcohol concerns and other ADA and FMLA issues, social media, technology and privacy
Personnel policies and procedures and employee handbooks
Workplace investigations relating to discrimination, harassment, retaliation, ethics violations and other workplace misconduct
Contracts/agreements including employment agreements, retention agreements, executive contracts, confidentiality, nonsolicitation and noncompetition agreements, and severance agreements
Business transitions, such as mergers, acquisitions and reductions in force
John M. Bagyi and James Holahan, "What Employees Don't Know Hurts Everyone," New York Law Journal Special Report, March 9, 2014
John M. Bagyi and W.S Becker, "The Civil Rights Act of 1991," Human Resources Encyclopedia, Pfeiffer, 2011
"Preventing Harassment," Security Management, January 2009
"Legal Q&A," CRHRA Newsletter, 2001-2004
"Employee handbooks: a tool to avoid employer liability," Professional Insurance Agents Magazine, June 2004
John M. Bagyi and Peter A. Jones, "Blowing the Whistle: Dealing with Sarbanes Oxley and Beyond," HR Review, New York State Society for Human Resource Management, Spring/Summer 2004
"Union Organizing - what you need to know now, Tools for the Trade," New York State Association of Health Care Providers, May/June 2004
John M. Bagyi and Peter A. Jones, "What HR Professionals Need To Know About HIPAA's Privacy Regulations," HR Review, New York State Society for Human Resource Management, Fall/Winter 2002
"Employee Handbooks Have Become A Necessary Tool For Employers," Capital District Business Review, July 5, 2002
"New Union Election Law Affects Some Employers," The Human Resource Line, The Business Council of New York State, February 2002
John M. Bagyi and Louis P. DiLorenzo, "Employment Litigation in Upstate New York: Results of the Bond, Schoeneck & King Study," New York Employment Law & Practice, October 2001 Contributor, Paul Grossman, et al., Employment Discrimination Law (Supp. 2000; Supp. 2002)
"Board of Education of Kiryas Joel v. Grumet: Misconstruing the Status Quo as a Neutral Baseline," 60 Albany Law Review 543, 1996
"Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick: The Court of Appeals' Voice of Compassion," 59 Albany Law Review 1913, 1996
