Littler Adds Cal/Osha Attorney Eric Compere to its Leading Workplace Safety & Health Practice

Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has added Eric Compere as of counsel in its Workplace Safety & Health Practice Group. Compere, who will be based in Los Angeles, was previously an attorney with the California Department of Industrial Relations’ Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA). Since the onset of the pandemic, Littler’s deep bench of attorneys in the Workplace Safety & Health Practice and the firm’s COVID-19 Task Force have counseled clients on the myriad of issues brought on by COVID-19.

Compere’s addition further strengthens Littler’s Workplace Safety & Health Practice, which also brought on former Cal/OSHA attorney Melissa Peters in 2019. With in-depth insight into the complex network of workplace safety regulations across the country, the practice provides employers with the tools to maintain safe workplaces and counsel to anticipate changing compliance regulations and emerging issues.

At Cal/OSHA, Compere represented the division in a range of matters, including administrative hearings, appellate briefings and oral arguments. He also advised California’s governor’s office on matters related to safety and health in the workplace and conducted legislative reviews of proposed regulation for the state’s Labor & Workforce Development Agency. During the coronavirus pandemic, Compere conducted statewide training on the California Aerosol Transmissible Diseases (ATD) standard and COVID-19 citation issuance and served as a Cal/OSHA contact to the California Department of Public Health and the state Department of Justice.

Compere received his J.D. from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and his B.A. from Williams College.