John M. Cerilli

John M. Cerilli represents employers with respect to all aspects of labor and employment law. His traditional labor law practice focuses on:

• NLRA/NLRB
• Labor arbitration
• Collective bargaining
• Labor contract administration
• Strikes and picketing
• Plant closings and mass layoffs
• Corporate transactions

In his employment practice, John provides counseling and training on a wide range of employment matters, such as:

• Hiring and firing
• Personnel policies
• Reductions-in-force
• Discrimination
• Workers' compensation

John regularly appears before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Pennsylvania Human Rights Commission and other governmental agencies. His clients include the following industries:

• Energy
• Oil, gas, and coal
• Manufacturing
• Steel
• Chemical
• Airline
• Healthcare
• Cultural and entertainment
• Armored car
• Technology
• Transportation
• Commercial real estate

John is a founding member of the firm's Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, office and served as office managing shareholder of both the Pittsburgh and West Virginia offices for the period of 2006-2016. He is co-chair of Littler’s Energy Practice Group, a core member of the firm's Traditional Labor Practice Group, a member of the firm’s Corporate Transactions Practice Group.

John regularly provides presentations for clients and local organizations on topics such as:

• Labor law overview and training for human resource managers
• Conducting effective investigations that will hold up at arbitration 
• Best practices for effective management of the grievance-arbitration procedure
• Managing strikes and lockouts - contingency planning and what you need to know to comply with the law
• Best practices for litigating labor arbitrations
• The art of labor negotiations
• Understanding why you lose labor arbitrations so you can start winning
• Making discipline stick: meeting the just cause requirements
• Strike training for supervisors
• NLRB update

Prior to joining Littler, John was a field examiner with the NLRB's Region Six office in Pittsburgh.

*Not licensed to practice law in West Virginia