Jay Sabin

Jay Sabin is a seasoned labor and employment and transportation attorney with extensive corporate experience as in-house counsel to a regional third-party logistics provider and The New York Times. He assists clients in the following areas:

- Labor relations and NLRB proceedings
- Labor arbitrations
- Employee classification issues and independent contractor agreements
- Wage and hour and EEO compliance
- FMCSA and DOT compliance
- Drug and alcohol testing
- Transportation liability defense
- Company employment policy formulation
- Background checks
- Employment contracts, reductions in force, severance agreements, and protection of intellectual property and trade secrets
- Commercial transportation contracts
- Insurance coverage disputes
- Pension plan withdrawal liability
- Medical plan design and ACA compliance

Jay has provided counsel to employers in a broad range of industries, including trucking, media, warehouse, healthcare, cannabis, manufacturing, trade exporters, stevedoring, and SaaS HR providers. He has presented on topics such as third-party cargo claims and social media ethics for attorneys.

Jay is a graduate of the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiations, the Duke Corporate Education Leadership Program, the Tuck School of Business Executive Program, and the University of Tennessee Vested Outsourcing Program.

New Jersey

New Jersey Courts

ID Number: 042581990

New York

New York State Office of Court Administration

ID Number: 2444669

Member

Brach Eichler LLC

2019 - Current

Head of Transportation Law practice and Firm's dedicated labor counselor. Advise firm clients on labor, benefits, employment, transporation, and cannabis matters.

Board Member & 401k Plan Trustee Board Member & 401k Plan Trustee

Employers Association of New Jersey

2008 - 2023

Non-profit providing HR consultancy services to over 2,500 New Jersey employer members. Primarily small and mid-size organizations. Services include compliance training and resource materials, compensation surveys, advice, and accessibility to group health and 401k benefit programs.

General Counsel

Grocery Haulers

2007 - 2019

Executive responsible for the legal, human resources and labor relations affairs. Transportation, logistics, warehousing, wholesaling, distribution, and manufacturing collection of privately held companies. Heavily regulated industries (food and transportation) with a multi-cultural, largely unionized staff. • Spearheaded regulatory compliance resulting in zero EEO probable cause determinations, minimal employment litigation, zero wage and hour class certifications, zero FMLA suits, zero ERISA suits, and zero US DOT audits • Key member of transformative, academic-facilitated outsourcing initiative with major global customer. Widely praised in the trade publications (www.mmh.com/article/transportation_best_practices_trends_rethinking_3pl_contracts) • Helped resuscitate company from dramatic revenue loss when major customer declared bankruptcy *Results may vary depending upon your particular facts and legal circumstances.

Vice President

The New York Times

1993 - 2006

Workforce management executive in a highly complex work setting where approximately 3,500 employees - ranging from journalists to salespeople to truck drivers to TV editors - are represented by over a dozen different unions. Moved the organization through 12+ years of strategic change in its approach to workforce management. Regularly guided C suite members through workforce issues. • Negotiated and implemented 15+ labor contracts for two start-up manufacturing printing plants • Selected as key member of international newspaper take-over team • Designed and implemented multiple reductions in force due to shrinking newspaper business • Negotiated industry-leading journalistic Code of Conduct with Newspaper Guild

Legal Associate

Proskauer Rose

1990 - 1993

Provided legal guidance as an Associate on a wide variety of issues for the firm’s labor, employment and benefits clients in a range of industries (e.g., hospitality, finance, transportation).

Cornell University

B.S. | Industrial & Labor Relations

Columbia Law School

J.D. (1986)

1986

New Jersey Pay Transparency Law Now In Effect

Brach Eichler LLC

June 5, 2025

SCOTUS Cornell Decision Opens the Door to Frivolous Lawsuits over Pension Plan Fees

Brach Eichler LLC

May 16, 2025

Job Applicants Have No Right to Sue Under New Jersey’s Adult-Use Cannabis Law

Brach Eichler LLC

January 7, 2025

AI In the Workplace: Why You Need To Know How Your Staff Is Already Using AI, Roseland, NJ

May 30, 2025

Brach Eichler LLC

Every day, 1 out of 10 people use AI to create content – answers, documents, letters, poetry, summaries, etc. – according to conversative estimates, and its rate of use is only accelerating. In the healthcare industry, AI is used to assist with medical record notetaking and to coordinate and manage care.