JeAnne Reyes provides strategic, practical guidance to employers on complex employment law issues, workplace investigations, executive compensation and workforce management.

JeAnne has deep experience supporting high-growth companies and corporate transactions, partnering closely with executive leadership, HR teams and in-house counsel. She also supports mergers and acquisitions through employment-related diligence and transactional counseling, and represents employers in sensitive disputes.

Representative Experience

  • Advised executive leadership and HR teams of public and private companies on employment compliance, performance management, onboarding/off-boarding, policy drafting, workplace investigations, workforce restructuring, high-risk terminations and reductions in force.
  • Supported mergers, acquisitions and financings by conducting employment diligence and drafting and negotiating employment-related provisions and agreements.
  • Represented employers in early-stage dispute resolution, dispute prevention, and risk mitigation.

Professional Highlights

  • “Ninth Circuit’s Ruling on California’s AB 51 Creates Further Uncertainty for California Employers Using Mandatory Employment Arbitration Agreements,” Oct. 5, 2021.
  • “Workplace COVID-19 Vaccination Policies: To Mandate, or Not to Mandate?” Apr. 9, 2021.
  • “California’s Supreme Court Rejects Employer Use of Time-Rounding Policies in the Meal Period Context,” Mar. 15, 2021.

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  • Presenter: “Startup Recruiting Bootcamp,” Feb. 25, 2020.
  • “New California Law Prohibits Employers from Seeking Salary History Information from Job Applicants,” Oct. 30, 2017.
  • “Telecommuting: A Reasonable Accommodation?” Employment Law Daily, Oct. 30, 2015. 
  • “Employers Beware! Employees are Permitted to Use Employer’s Email Systems for Non-Work Purposes, Including Union Organizing,” Dec. 12, 2014.
  • Co-Presenter: “Not So Fast! – Using Social Media for Business: Concerns about Employment, Ownership, Privacy, & Ethics, MCLE Credit Crunch, Jan. 27, 2015.

Education

  • J.D., University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Berkeley Law), 2014

    B.A., Sociology, Haverford College, 2004

Admissions

  • California

Languages

  • Spanish