Teresa Toffer

Teri’s practice at EMC2 focuses on helping employers proactively manage all aspects of the employment relationship by providing day to day legal counseling on all aspects of the employment relationship, with special emphasis on background checks, hiring, counseling and termination practices, wage and hour compliance, layoffs, and harassment issues. Teri has extensive experience helping employers comply with, manage, and strategically address employee leaves of absence pursuant to the FMLA, the CFRA, and California’s Pregnancy Disability Leave Law (PDL), along with any concurrent disability accommodation obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and California’s FEHA. Teri also has experience drafting employment agreements and policies, as well as conducting employment and payroll practices audits. In addition, Teri has extensive experience conducting workplace investigations as an independent investigator on behalf of employers and their litigation counsel for class action lawsuits, as well as individual civil and administrative claims. She also regularly provides in-house management training seminars for executives, supervisors, managers, and human resources professionals, including sexual harassment prevention training pursuant to AB 1825.Teri has appeared in both state and federal court, as well as before various governmental agencies, including the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing and the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.