John Ho, co-chair of Cozen O'Connor’s OSHA-Workplace Safety Practice, will join the Advisory Board of Thomson Reuters Practical Law’s Labor & Employment Service for a two-year term beginning on January 1, 2023. John’s selection to serve on the Advisory Board is a testament to his standing in the legal community and impressive accomplishments in the field of labor and employment law. In this advisory capacity, John will partner with Practical Law’s attorney editors to identify practice trends and analyze cutting-edge legal concepts.
John exclusively represents employers in all labor and employment matters and regularly handles wage and hour matters involving federal and state laws, such as the Fair Labor Standards Act, the New York Labor Law, New York’s Miscellaneous Industries Wage Order, and New York’s Hospitality Wage Order which includes numerous cases involving New York’s Wage Theft Prevention Act, tip credits and pooling, deduction from wages and regular rate issues. John also routinely works with the Occupational Safety and Health Act, in addition to handling discrimination and retaliation claims, ADA public accommodation cases, misclassification of independent contractors, drafting employee handbook policies and executive employment contracts, non-competes, and conducting workplace harassment and discrimination investigations.
Prior to entering private practice, John served as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor where he prosecuted, among other things, FLSA and OSHA cases.
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