Rachel C. Schumacher concentrates her litigation practice in the areas of labor and employment law. She represents employers in a variety of federal and state litigation matters, including class action and individual claims of wage and hour violations, sexual harassment, age, disability, race and sex discrimination, failure to accommodate, whistleblower and public policy wrongful discharge. Rachel has extensive class action experience and focuses primarily on wage and hour class actions and collective actions, including Fair Labor Standards Act, meal and rest period, donning and doffing, vacation and regular rate of pay claims at the state and federal levels. Rachel also represents management in a variety of labor relations matters, including collective bargaining and unfair labor practice charges. She also provides employers with day-to-day preventive counseling and strategic solutions in connection with hiring, promotion, disability accommodation and termination of their employees, as well as compliance with local state and federal employment laws.

Rachel has conducted seminars on employment law issues addressing topics such as wage and hour compliance, workplace investigations, legislative trends, employment discrimination and harassment, leave issues, disability discrimination, accommodation and social media.

While attending law school, Rachel served as the notes editor of the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal.