Mr. Clutter is an associate in the Firm’s Labor & Employment Group where he concentrates his practice in representing and counseling employers in a wide range of employment-related matters.  Mr. Clutter devotes a substantial portion of his practice to advising employers concerning union organizing efforts, negotiations, and contract interpretation issues.  In addition, Mr. Clutter represents employers in labor arbitrations and unfair labor practice proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board.   As part of his employment practice, Mr. Clutter routinely counsels employers on issues that arise every day, including hiring, disciplining and discharging employees as well as responding to employee requests for leave and accommodation.  Mr. Clutter also has extensive experience defending employers in discrimination cases before federal courts and federal and state agencies. 

Floyd represents employers exclusively in:

• Union Avoidance Campaigns
• Collective Bargaining
• Labor Arbitrations
• Unfair Labor Practice Proceedings
• Employment Discrimination Litigation (trials and appeals)
• Unemployment Compensation Cases

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
• West Virginia
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia
• U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals

Education

• J.D. (cum laude; Member and Director, Wagner Labor Law Moot Court Competition Team; Student Attorney and Director, Civil Practice Clinic), University of Minnesota Law School, 2002
• Graduate Diploma, Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management, University of Melbourne (Victoria, Australia), 2000
• B.A., Economics (summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa), Washington and Jefferson College, 1998

Representative Matters

• Successfully defended an employer in a discriminatory layoff case before the National Labor Relations Board where the General Counsel and the union argued that the affected employees had been targeted because of their union activities
• Obtained summary judgment in a reverse discrimination case in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania where a male employee argued that he had been discharged for violating the employer’s sexual harassment policy because of his gender
• Obtained summary judgment in an Americans with Disabilities Act case in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania where employee argued that several affiliated entities constituted a single employer.

Memberships

• Member, American, Pennsylvania and Allegheny County Bar Associations
• Member, American Inns of Court, W. Edward Sell Chapter (Pittsburgh)
• Member, Labor and Employment Relations Association (South Western Pennsylvania Chapter)

Seminars & Speeches

• Presenter, Hot Topics In Labor & Employment Law, Pennsylvania Directors of Nursing Association, Annual Convention, Hershey, PA (June 2006)

Publications

• Co-author, The Last Twenty Years Have Resulted in a Spate of Employee-Friendly Laws, Hospital News (September 22, 2005)
• Contributing editor, The Developing Labor Law, Bureau of National Affairs (Cumulative Supplement, 2003-2005)
• Co-author, General Principles of Commercial Damages, Proving & Rebutting Damages in Commercial Litigation, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, 2004 (PBI No. 2003-3392)