Labor Relations & Negotiations

Christopher Boucher, esq.

Christopher’s practice focuses on labor and employment law, and his expertise includes representing employers in a union environment, including labor negotiations, changes to existing terms and conditions of employment and/or the effects of those changes, and the meaning and application of labor contract provisions.  He also serves as trusted counsel to employers throughout California regarding employee discipline, due process, grievance procedure issues, reasonable accommodation, and other labor and employment law matters. His clients greatly value his extensive practical human resources and labor negotiations experience, in addition to his legal skills.

Classification & Compensation

Talent Acquisition 

Tameka Usher

Tameka has extensive public service experience in classification and compensation; ranging from single position studies to agency wide studies, and base salary and total compensation assignments. She has management experience in multiple phases of human resources including recruitment and selection, employee relations, and training and staff development. Tameka is a IPMA-CP (International Public Management Association for HR-certified professional).

Benefits & Leaves Administration

Rachel Shaw

Rachel Shaw is the President and Principal Consultant of Shaw HR Consulting, Incorporated. With more than 20 years of executive-level Human Resources experience, Rachel is recognized nationwide as a leader in helping public and private sector employers manage their most challenging disability-related personnel issues. Rachel and her team provide comprehensive solutions to employers on how to successfully manage the interconnected roles of human resources, workers’ compensation and disability compliance to successfully reduce litigation, the costs of claims and improve employee-employer relations throughout the process.

Rachel is known nationally as the authority on how to implement and manage the ADA Disability Interactive Process for candidates and employees. Her trainings and seminars are highly anticipated by Human Resource and Risk Management professionals as informative, dynamic and packed with real-life practical solutions.  She is author of the industry best-selling and award-winning book, “The Disabled Workforce: What the ADA Never Anticipated.”

Rachel served as the Director of Human Resources for the City of Oxnard and prior to that was the Human Resources Director for the Montebello Unified School District. She is a graduate of Brown University and later earned a Master of Business Administration from Colorado State University.