Kate Hallward

Email: khallward@leonardcarder.com

Kate Hallward is a partner at Leonard Carder LLP where she represents public and private sector unions in healthcare, transit, local government, higher education, warehouse and factory settings. She partners with unions to develop organizing drives, contract campaigns, negotiations, arbitrations, administrative hearings and litigation. Kate also advises clients on a range of employment and labor law topics, drafts legislation, and provides counsel to bargaining committees and other workplace leaders. She conducts trainings on diverse topics ranging from how to prepare for arbitration, avoid a defamation claim or modify an existing bargaining unit. She also defends workers’ rights to strike and engage in expressive activity, leafleting, picketing, and other job actions.

Kate speaks Spanish and received her J.D. from University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 2004. Kate has also represented refugees seeking asylum and represents immigrant workers in relation to a variety of employment related matters.

Individual Employee Rights
Public Sector Labor Law and Collective Bargaining
Private Sector Labor Law and Collective Bargaining
Union Arbitrations, Unfair Labor Practices and Litigation
Legislative and Regulatory Reform

University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, Berkeley, California
Brown University, Providence, RI

Labor Relations in Transit Districts, (Co-Author) Chapter 5 of California Public Sector Employment Law (Lexis-Nexis) (2018 forthcoming)
Discipline & Discharge, Chapter 7 of California Public Sector Employment Law, (Lexis-Nexis, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015) (Co-Author)
Pocket Guide to Due Process in Public Employment (2011 Update), California Public Employee Relations Program (“CPER”), Regents of the University of California
Del Rio and Recology, CUIAB Case Nos. 5988280 and 5967917, San Jose Office of Appeals (2017) (finding immigrant worker eligible for unemployment insurance benefits during period of time when employment authorization renewal was pending).
AFSCME Local 3299 v. Regents of the University of California (2014) (Flexing) (finding practice of “flexing” workers’ hours, sending workers home mid-shift without notice or compensation to violate the parties’ agreement).
IFPTE Local 21 v. City of Oakland (2013) (Oakland Museum – Contracting Out) (finding the City of Oakland’s decision to contract work out to a private non-profit and lay off City employees in the process violated the Oakland City Charter, collective bargaining statute and the parties’ agreement).
State Employees Trades Council v. UCLA (2012) PERB HO-U 1071H (Furloughs) (ordering UCLA to make workers whole after the University imposed across-the-board furloughs, cutting workers’ time and pay).
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and Society of Professionals, Scientists, and Engineers Local 11 – University Professional and Technical Employees (UPTE) (2011) 357 NLRB No. 23 (Layoffs) (finding employer’s layoff of bargaining unit members during contract negotiations to constitute bad faith bargaining).
UPTE v. University of California (2010), PERB Case No. SF-UM-626-H (Unit Modification) (adding 163 Case Managers to the Health Care Professionals’ bargaining unit).

Politics and Public Employee Free Speech, 2013 California State Bar, Public Sector Conference
Local Rules Enacted under the Myers Millias Brown Act– Are they Reasonable? 2007 California Public Employee Relations Program (“CPER”) Conference
Public Sector Employees and the California Labor Code, 2014 California Employment Lawyers’ Association Conference
State Wage and Hour Law in Public Employment, 2008 California State Bar Public Sector Employment Conference

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