Anthony J. Oncidi is the Co-Chair Emeritus of Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and heads the West Coast Labor & Employment group in the firm’s Los Angeles office.
Tony represents employers and management in all aspects of labor relations and employment law, including litigation and preventive counseling, wage and hour matters, including class actions, wrongful termination, employee discipline, Title VII and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, executive employment contract disputes, sexual harassment training and investigations, workplace violence, drug testing and privacy issues, Sarbanes-Oxley claims and employee raiding and trade secret protection. A substantial portion of Tony’s practice involves the defense of employers in large class actions, employment discrimination, harassment and wrongful termination litigation in state and federal court as well as arbitration proceedings, including FINRA matters.
Tony is the author of the treatise titled Employment Discrimination Depositions (Juris Publishing 2020), co-author of Proskauer on Privacy (PLI 2023), and, since 1990, has been a regular columnist for the official publication of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the State Bar of California and the Los Angeles Daily Journal.
Tony has been a featured guest on Fox 11 News and CBS News in Los Angeles. He has been interviewed and quoted by national media outlets including The National Law Journal, Bloomberg News, The New York Times, Newsweek and Time magazine. He is a frequent speaker on employment law topics and has testified as an expert witness regarding wage and hour issues and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act. He has also served as an arbitrator in an employment discrimination matter.
Tony is an appointed Hearing Examiner for the Los Angeles Police Commission Board of Rights and has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law and guest lecturer at USC Law School and as a guest lecturer at UCLA Law School.
- Labor and employment