Overview
Sharon Ormond chairs AALRR’s Associate Mentoring and Training Committee and is a member of the firm’s Higher Education, Title IX, Civil Rights, and Wage and Hour teams. She represents numerous community college districts and other California educational agencies in the areas of labor relations and personnel management. She has more than 25 years of experience handling cases involving employee discipline, reductions in force, unfair practice charges, contract grievances, and the investigation and defense of discrimination, harassment, whistleblower, retaliation, and free speech claims. Her practice also includes advice, counsel, and litigation in First Amendment, search and seizure and privacy rights, wage and hour compliance, leaves of absence, disability accommodations, student discipline, and compliance with the Brown Act and the California Public Records Act.
Ms. Ormond regularly represents employers before the Office of Administrative Hearings, California Civil Rights Department (formerly the Department of Fair Employment and Housing), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Public Employment Relations Board, California Labor Commissioner (Division of Labor Standards Enforcement), and in federal and state courts. In a case of alleged discrimination and retaliation, Ms. Ormond helped secure a 12-0 jury verdict in favor of the firm’s public university client.