Marc B. Zimmerman

Marc Zimmerman is a premier management-side labor and employment lawyer known for delivering strategic, business-focused counsel to employers navigating complex workplace challenges. He is a go-to advisor when the stakes are high — bringing decisive judgment, commercial savvy, and practical precision to solve issues, provide enterprise value, and deliver results aligned with client priorities.

He builds enduring client relationships by listening closely, and understanding, an organization’s goals and risk profile, and translating legal complexity into practical, actionable guidance. His hands-on, collaborative style with C-suite executives, managers, and in-house counsel helps clients make confident decisions, implement effective solutions, and protect their businesses without losing sight of broader commercial objectives.

Marc advises employers across the full spectrum of labor, employment, human resources, and related business matters, including the employment aspects of acquisitions, wage and hour compliance, worker classification, restrictive covenants, discipline, management training, policy development, reductions in force, workplace investigations, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, disability accommodation, and whistleblower claims. He is also a trusted labor strategist who has served as lead negotiator and management representative for dozens of collective bargaining agreements across the hospitality, manufacturing, automotive, distribution, administrative, and creative professional sectors. In addition, he regularly structures, drafts, and negotiates employment agreements, contractor agreements, separation agreements, restrictive covenant arrangements, and executive compensation agreements for management and senior executives.

Marc has represented employers in hundreds of disputes, including administrative proceedings, arbitrations, and litigation in federal and state courts. Whether the matter is before a court, arbitrator, fair employment agency, or labor authority — including the National Labor Relations Board, federal and state Departments of Labor, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and state and city human rights agencies — he brings seasoned judgment, sharp advocacy, and a practical command of the issues at stake. His experience spans an expansive client portfolio across luxury and consumer goods, fashion, hospitality, retail, automotive, manufacturing, real estate, building services, finance, education, health care and insurance.

Fluent in federal, state, and local labor and employment law, Marc is frequently sought out as a speaker, author, and commentator on emerging workplace issues. His insights have been featured in Women’s Wear Daily, Workforce Magazine, Corporate Counsel, Inside Counsel, Human Resource Executive Magazine, as well as Law360.com, MSNBC.com, and the Associated Press. He was recognized by the New York Law Journal as a New York Trailblazer for his distinctive combination of reliable judgment, collaborative style and pragmatic counsel.

Marc's Practice

Representative Matters

• Obtained dismissal of a federal class action complaint by employees of a five-star New York City hotel alleging violations of the federal and New York WARN Acts.
• Obtained summary judgment in a federal sex discrimination and retaliation claim by a former hospitality employee of a world-renowned New York City restaurant.
• Negotiated terminations of c-suite executive team for health care company in connection with business acquisition and restructuring.
• Prosecuted and resolved action by real estate company against former employee accused of misappropriating trade secrets.
• Obtained voluntary dismissal of federal wage, discrimination, and retaliation claims for high-end fragrance boutique and obtained letter of retraction for employees’ allegations in pleadings.
• Obtained dismissal of New York whistleblower and retaliation claim by former health care employee and obtained sanctions against former employee and law firm representing former employee.
• Successfully defended a food distributor against a federal and state class and collective action involving alleged misclassification of warehouse management employees as exempt from overtime premium pay.
• Negotiated c-suite executive agreements in the hospitality, entertainment, luxury, fashion, finance, real estate, private air travel, and numerous other industries.
• Negotiated and settled collective bargaining agreements in the hospitality, automotive, distribution, employee benefits, administrative professional and creative professional and various other industries.