Biography

Victoria Holmes is a skilled attorney in the labor and employment field, providing comprehensive counseling to employers on a wide range of issues, including wage and hour, personnel policies, layoffs, disability, Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and pensions/benefits. She specializes in effectively navigating employment and labor law matters, such as wage and hour law, collective bargaining, employment practices and policies, employee discipline, and grievance resolution, with a focus on minimizing risk. Victoria also excels in drafting employment-related documents, including employee handbooks, policy manuals, settlement agreements, employment contracts, and severance agreements.

Victoria also specializes in conducting objective workplace investigations to evaluate and analyze employee complaints of harassment, discrimination, hostile work environment, and retaliation, and uses the information obtained during these investigations to provide employers with practical managerial, staffing, and workforce recommendations. Additionally, she has experience representing municipal employers before the New Jersey Public Employer Relations Commission in relation to unfair labor practices, exploratory conferences, mediations, and arbitrations.

Before joining Cleary Giacobbe Alfieri Jacobs, Victoria served as a Law Clerk in the Criminal Division of the Morris County Superior Court.