Mel Haas Appointed as Vice Chairman of U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Labor Relations Committee

W. Melvin Haas has been appointed as vice chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Labor Relations Committee.

Haas has a wealth of labor and employment law experience, having handled more than 100 union elections, including several of over 1,000 employees in the voting unit. He has represented management in numerous unfair labor practice proceedings, representation case hearings, objections case hearings, as well as arguments before the Courts of Appeals. Haas was recently named to Human Resource Executive Magazine's list of "Top 10 Most Powerful Labor Attorneys for 2009."    

            “We are pleased that Mel Haas has agreed to serve as Vice Chair of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Labor Relations Committee,” says Randy Johnson, senior vice president, Labor, Immigration & Employee Benefits, U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “Mel’s in-depth experience of employment law, as applied in many real-life situations, will help us move a pro-business agenda and counter many of the misguided initiatives, such as the Employee Free Choice Act, we are now confronting on Capitol Hill.”

One of the Chamber’s largest and most active policy committees, the Labor Relations Committee is responsible for helping to form the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Labor & Employment agenda. The committee’s nearly 150 companies, law firms and trade associations from across the country develop Chamber policy and programs on a wide range of labor and employment issues, including: employment nondiscrimination, minimum wage and wage-hour, occupational safety and health, immigration, labor-management relations, union corporate/strategic campaigns, workplace privacy, work-family issues and leave mandates, and emerging international labor policy issues. 

            The head of Constangy, Brooks & Smith’s Macon office, Haas has served on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Labor Relations Committee for three years.