Cheyne R. Scott
Partner
cscott@chasanlaw.com
T 201-809-6005
Partner
cscott@chasanlaw.com
T 201-809-6005
Cheyne Scott, Partner and Director of the Firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee, concentrates her practice in Labor & Employment law.
She has more than 10 years of experience representing employers and individual members of management in both the private and public sectors.
Preventative Counseling
Cheyne regularly provides employers with practical and cost-effective preventative counseling on a wide variety of employment matters. Her preventative counseling focuses on assisting clients to make legally-compliant employment decisions that advance management objectives and avoid or reduce litigation risks.
Cheyne provides substantive legal advice under state and federal employment laws including employee hiring, discharge and discipline, managing employee leaves of absence, avoiding and responding to unlawful discrimination, harassment and retaliation in the workplace, reasonable workplace accommodations for disabled employees, reasonable accommodations for religious beliefs, drug and alcohol testing, employee monitoring and privacy rights in the workplace, employee benefits, protected whistle-blower activities by employees, reductions in force, restrictive covenants, individual employment agreements, wage and hour compliance, personnel file management and record keeping requirements, and other related labor and employment matters.
Employee Handbooks and Policies
Cheyne regularly prepares comprehensive, legally compliant employee handbooks and policies uniquely customized to the employer’s industry, business practices and workforce.
Specifically, Cheyne drafts forward-thinking policies that mitigate the risk of litigation and strategically addresses nuanced and developing areas of law to meet the unique needs of individual clients including, but not limited to social media policies, hybrid work policies, marijuana policies and COVID-19 policies.
Training
Cheyne routinely provides management and staff training for our clients in all aspects of employment law compliance, including workplace harassment, discrimination, implicit bias and retaliation; managing leaves of absence and return to duty issues; conducting performance evaluations; implementing employee discipline and monitoring employee electronic communications.
Cheyne provides high-level diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-bias training for various private, public and non-profit employers. These trainings cover all topics required under federal and state law and provides comprehensive and practical examples and scenarios to help employers and employees understand the nuances of how bias impacts the workplace.
Cheyne provides diversity audits and trainings for employers who seek to improve the recruiting, hiring and retention of diverse talent in their organizations. In these trainings, Cheyne sets forth comprehensive studies, statistics and data in order to provide employers with understanding and incentive to develop internal policies and plans that will lead to an inclusive workplace.
Employee Mediations
Cheyne utilizes her skills and expertise as a Certified Life Coach to provide employee mediation services for her employer clients. Often, conflicts among employees cannot be resolved through transfers or terminations. Employers can feel like they’ve tried “everything” when they just need an outside perspective in order to resolve interpersonal conflicts. Cheyne offers one or more mediation sessions with employees to get to the root causes of their conflicts and to come to a compromise that satisfies the employees while still protecting the legal interests of the employer.
Workplace Investigations
Cheyne regularly provides counsel to clients conducting internal investigations into allegations of sexual harassment, racial discrimination, other forms of harassment and/or discrimination prohibited by state and federal law, and other workplace misconduct. Cheyne is frequently retained by public and private sector employers to conduct internal investigations into allegations of harassment and workplace misconduct and to provide reports of findings and recommendations for further action.
Litigation Defense and Dispute Resolution
Cheyne has successfully represented employers and members of management in all aspects of proceedings in state and federal courts, the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and administrative agencies involving claims of unlawful harassment and discrimination; wrongful discharge; breach of contract; whistleblower retaliation; failure to provide reasonable accommodation; civil rights violations; violation of non-compete agreements; violation of leave rights; wage and hour compliance; and other employment claims.
Cheyne’s appellate practice includes several appearances before the New Jersey Appellate Division and an appearance before the New Jersey Supreme Court. Cheyne has also resolved lawsuits and administrative charges in an effective, cost-efficient manner consistent with our clients’ financial and strategic objectives.
Awards
Publications
Speaking Engagements
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Award Methodology
Cheyne Scott, Partner and Director of the Firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee, concentrates her practice in Labor & Employment law.
She has more than 10 years of experience representing employers and individual members of management in both the private and public sectors.
Preventative Counseling
Cheyne regularly provides employers with practical and cost-effective preventative counseling on a wide variety of employment matters. Her preventative counseling focuses on assisting clients to make legally-compliant employment decisions that advance management objectives and avoid or reduce litigation risks.
Cheyne provides substantive legal advice under state and federal employment laws including employee hiring, discharge and discipline, managing employee leaves of absence, avoiding and responding to unlawful discrimination, harassment and retaliation in the workplace, reasonable workplace accommodations for disabled employees, reasonable accommodations for religious beliefs, drug and alcohol testing, employee monitoring and privacy rights in the workplace, employee benefits, protected whistle-blower activities by employees, reductions in force, restrictive covenants, individual employment agreements, wage and hour compliance, personnel file management and record keeping requirements, and other related labor and employment matters.
Employee Handbooks and Policies
Cheyne regularly prepares comprehensive, legally compliant employee handbooks and policies uniquely customized to the employer’s industry, business practices and workforce.
Specifically, Cheyne drafts forward-thinking policies that mitigate the risk of litigation and strategically addresses nuanced and developing areas of law to meet the unique needs of individual clients including, but not limited to social media policies, hybrid work policies, marijuana policies and COVID-19 policies.
Training
Cheyne routinely provides management and staff training for our clients in all aspects of employment law compliance, including workplace harassment, discrimination, implicit bias and retaliation; managing leaves of absence and return to duty issues; conducting performance evaluations; implementing employee discipline and monitoring employee electronic communications.
Cheyne provides high-level diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-bias training for various private, public and non-profit employers. These trainings cover all topics required under federal and state law and provides comprehensive and practical examples and scenarios to help employers and employees understand the nuances of how bias impacts the workplace.
Cheyne provides diversity audits and trainings for employers who seek to improve the recruiting, hiring and retention of diverse talent in their organizations. In these trainings, Cheyne sets forth comprehensive studies, statistics and data in order to provide employers with understanding and incentive to develop internal policies and plans that will lead to an inclusive workplace.
Employee Mediations
Cheyne utilizes her skills and expertise as a Certified Life Coach to provide employee mediation services for her employer clients. Often, conflicts among employees cannot be resolved through transfers or terminations. Employers can feel like they’ve tried “everything” when they just need an outside perspective in order to resolve interpersonal conflicts. Cheyne offers one or more mediation sessions with employees to get to the root causes of their conflicts and to come to a compromise that satisfies the employees while still protecting the legal interests of the employer.
Workplace Investigations
Cheyne regularly provides counsel to clients conducting internal investigations into allegations of sexual harassment, racial discrimination, other forms of harassment and/or discrimination prohibited by state and federal law, and other workplace misconduct. Cheyne is frequently retained by public and private sector employers to conduct internal investigations into allegations of harassment and workplace misconduct and to provide reports of findings and recommendations for further action.
Litigation Defense and Dispute Resolution
Cheyne has successfully represented employers and members of management in all aspects of proceedings in state and federal courts, the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and administrative agencies involving claims of unlawful harassment and discrimination; wrongful discharge; breach of contract; whistleblower retaliation; failure to provide reasonable accommodation; civil rights violations; violation of non-compete agreements; violation of leave rights; wage and hour compliance; and other employment claims.
Cheyne’s appellate practice includes several appearances before the New Jersey Appellate Division and an appearance before the New Jersey Supreme Court. Cheyne has also resolved lawsuits and administrative charges in an effective, cost-efficient manner consistent with our clients’ financial and strategic objectives.
Awards
Publications
Speaking Engagements
No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey
Award Methodology
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