Chris Foster advises leading companies and wealthy families in labor and employment matters.
Chris has extensive experience handling union organizing and decertification campaigns, unfair labor practice investigations, trials and appeals. He provides strategic planning on the addition and divesting of unionized operations and rapid response tactics to economic warfare (e.g., strikes, pickets and pressure campaigns).
Beyond union-related matters, Chris defends employers in arbitrations involving contract disputes and terminations, and against state and federal wage and hour, discrimination, harassment and wrongful termination claims.
Chris also focuses on advising wealthy individuals, families, closely-held businesses, private foundations, and non-profits on employment issues, training, compliance, and risk mitigation in hiring and termination of employees, non-disclosure and privacy agreements, development of employee handbooks and policies/procedures, and related claims and litigation.
Chris is an editor for the Developing Labor Law treatise and formerly served as a senior articles editor for the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law. During undergraduate, he studied economics and philosophy at the University of Oxford under a full, one-year scholarship from Santa Clara University
Chris is pro bono labor counsel for the San Francisco Zoo and serves as the San Francisco office hiring partner.
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