Peter Hering

Peter Hering advises employers of all sizes on how to navigate the intricacies of California’s employment laws, in particular its complex wage and hour requirements.

Peter divides his time between counseling employers on strategies for proactively assessing and minimizing litigation risk and representing employers facing a broad array of employment claims.

Peter also leads the OC Human Trafficking Project, which is the firm’s pro bono collaboration with UCI School of Law’s Pro Bono Program with a mission to provide pro bono legal services to human trafficking survivors in Orange County and Southern California.  Peter was awarded the firm’s Excellence in Pro Bono Service Award in 2022.

Transactional Advice

• Assisting California and national employers with wage and hour compliance self-audits;
• Drafting handbooks, workplace policies, employment agreements, separation agreements;
• Advising on leave of absence and disability accommodation issues;
• Advising on employee discipline and termination issues; and
• Providing in-person sexual harassment training pursuant to A.B. 1825.

Employment Litigation

• Defending employers in all types of wage and hour litigation, including class actions and representative actions under California’s Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA).
• Defending employers in discrimination, retaliation, harassment, disability and wrongful termination cases in state and federal court.
• Representing employers in administrative proceedings before the California Civil Rights Department, the California Division of Labor Standards, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the U.S. Department of Labor, and similar agencies.

Before joining Rutan & Tucker in 2014, Peter practiced as a litigation association at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP in New York City.