Kyllan Kershaw

About Kyllan Kershaw

I partner with my clients to develop solutions for labor-relations issues, including challenges stemming from mergers and acquisitions, workforce reduction, startups, and other business restructuring matters.I achieve optimal outcomes for my clients in collective bargaining negotiations, election campaigns, labor arbitrations, and labor-related litigation before the National Labor Relations Board. I am a skilled negotiator, with particular experience negotiating exits from costly union pension and healthcare plans and first contracts for large employers with multi-facility bargaining units. I am also a proactive labor-relations counselor, helping clients spot and solve for potential issues before they become problems. Along those lines, I conduct union vulnerability assessments, workplace investigations, provide positive employee relations training, and counsel on labor relations issues such as lockouts and strikes, card-check and neutrality agreements, corporate campaigns, traditional organizing campaigns, withdrawal liability, and other employee benefits matters. I represent employers across a range of industries, including transportation, public utility, retail, and entertainment clients. I have significant experience representing airlines in labor matters, including arbitrations, collective bargaining negotiations under Section 6 of the Railway Labor Act, bankruptcies, and business restructuring issues. I am a thought-leader on matters related to workforce change and managing a multi-generational workplace, and frequently counsel clients on issues related to automation, ecommerce, generational changes in the workforce, advances in employee communication and social media, and how to level the communication playing field between unions and employers when communicating with younger, more diverse workforces.

Experience

1. Member Board of Directors

   Atlanta Humane Society

   Oct 2018 — Present · Atlanta, GA, US

Education

• University of Georgia School of Law

  Doctor of Law (J.D.)

  2006 — 2009

• The University of Georgia

  Bachelor's degree, Political Science and Government

  2002 — 2006

Skills

• Employment Law
• Labor Relations
• Employee Handbooks
• Employee Relations
• Employment Discrimination