Taylor Bleistein

Taylor Bleistein focuses her practice on labor and employment law. She represents employers in both litigation and arbitration proceedings in New York and California, while also providing day-to-day advice and counsel to employers operating nationwide. Her clients span a range of industries, including education, construction, healthcare, energy, and nonprofit sectors. Taylor advises on a broad spectrum of labor and compliance issues, handles grievance arbitrations, and advocates for clients before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). She also has experience supporting employers during union organizing drives, negotiating and administering collective bargaining agreements, and navigating complex labor relations matters.

Taylor conducts workplace investigations into allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct, reviewing all relevant policies, procedures, and other documents to advise clients accordingly based on the findings. She also defends employers in employment-related litigation involving claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wage and hour violations under federal and state laws.

In her counseling practice, Taylor regularly assists employers with personnel matters, including reviewing, drafting, and updating employee handbooks, paid leave and anti-discrimination policies, hiring and promotion practices, DEI initiatives, and separation agreements. She also advises on compliance with key federal and state employment statutes, including the WARN Act, FMLA, FLSA, NLRA, ADA, Title VII, and Title IX, as well as relevant New York State, New York City, and California employment laws.

Taylor’s approach is shaped by her prior work as a legal intern with the NLRB’s Region 29 office, where she gained hands-on experience conducting investigations, drafting legal memoranda, interviewing witnesses, and preparing recommendations for the regional director.

• Represented an international, private higher education institution in a hearing before the NLRB regarding a representation election petition for a bargaining unit of more than 300 security guards.
• Represented a criminal defendant, once the owner and founder of one of New York City’s largest construction firms, in a post-trial Fatico hearing respecting the alleged loss associated with the defendant’s required benefit contributions to multiple union benefit funds on behalf of his employees performing covered work under the terms of various collective bargaining agreements and project labor agreements (PLAs).
• Successfully second chaired negotiations for a collective bargaining agreement on behalf of a multinational mining company for a bargaining unit of over 400 mine workers represented by United Steel Workers (USW).
• Successfully moved for dismissal of an employee’s retaliatory discharge claims against a New York City employer (Forrest v. New York City Housing Authority, et al.).
• Conducted an internal investigation into hostile work environment accusations against a member of senior management at a global research and policy nonprofit.
• Represented a New York construction employer in the assessment of withdrawal liability by the Sheet Metal Workers’ National Pension Fund.
• Successfully second chaired negotiations for a collective bargaining agreement on behalf of an international independent school for a bargaining unit of over 200 faculty and staff.
• Conducted an internal investigation into allegations that a union employee engaged in harassment and discrimination and created a hostile work environment at a New York concert venue.
• Obtained dismissal of an unfair labor practice charge filed with the NLRB for a multinational mining company by United Steel Workers (USW).
• Conducted an internal investigation into allegations that a camp counselor sexually assaulted a minor camper at a New York City independent school.
• Successfully obtained dismissal of breach of contract and fraud claims against a private golf club in connection with a disputed refundable membership deposit. (Archer v. GlenArbor Golf Club, LLC).
• Successfully second chaired multi-month representation hearing before Region 2 of the NLRB representing a major NYC university for a petitioned-for bargaining unit consisting of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and professional research staff represented by the United Auto Workers (UAW).
• Successfully second chaired negotiations for a collective bargaining agreement on behalf of a major NYC hospital with a bargaining unit of over 1,000 nurses represented by United Federation of Teachers (UFT).
• Counsels employers on sensitive decisions relating to hiring, firing, compensation, internal investigations, and personnel issues.
• Advises on employment issues related to mergers and acquisitions.

Taylor holds a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, where she was the Vice President of Competitive Affairs of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Honor Society, a member of the Trial Division Moot Court Honor Society, and Articles Editor of the school’s Journal of Law and Policy. Taylor is dual barred in New York and California. Before joining Broadfield, she practiced at an AM Law 100 firm, Venable LLP, where she was a member of the firm’s Litigation Division in the Labor & Employment practice group.