As a co-chair of Littler’s Contingent Workforce Practice Group, Josh Waltman regularly advises clients on leveraging contingent workforce solutions and conducts deep-dive audits to assess and mitigate contingent workforce risk. He helps clients develop and support their contingent worker programs and litigates contingent worker matters. To support his work in the contingent worker space, Josh regularly drafts polices and agreements related to independent contractors, staffing firms, master service providers, and employer of record or agent of record services.
Additionally, Josh represents employers in litigation and administrative matters that include leave and accommodation, discrimination and harassment, restrictive covenants, and related labor and employment issues. He regularly partners with multiple stakeholders within a client’s organization, including legal, HR, investigations, business leadership, operations, finance, and ethics and compliance, to guide employers through their labor and employment challenges. His clients range from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses, and he provides practical advice with an eye toward both compliance and employee experience.
Josh regularly presents at local and national conferences on contingent workforce issues and conducts employee and manager training on discrimination and harassment prevention. He volunteers with the Anti-Defamation League, implementing anti-bullying programs in schools. He also served as a judge pro tem for the Maricopa County Superior Court.
Prior to joining Littler, he served as court counsel for Maricopa County Superior Court, the fourth-largest trial court in the country, where he advised the presiding judge and court administrator. Josh clerked for Chief Judge Roslyn O. Silver at the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona and served on the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review at Harvard Law School.