Employee Relations & Workplace Legal Compliance

Competitive Businesses Grow with Strategic Employee and Labor Relations.

People Savvy Solutions is your business and legal resource for the workplace. We partner with enterprise leaders, in-house counsel, and HR professionals to navigate complex labor and employment challenges proactively, strategically, and with deep expertise. We help today's businesses maintain their competitive edge through strategic legal and business workplace strategies.

What we do

Employee and Labor Relations & Workplace Legal Compliance

We help businesses elevate and protect their brand through dynamic legal and business workplace strategies that manage risks while driving success.

Strategic Employee Relations

We help organizations build proactive, legally sound employee relations strategies — reducing risk, strengthening culture, and aligning workforce practices with business goals.

Labor Relations & Collective Bargaining

Comprehensive support across the full spectrum of traditional labor matters including:

Workplace Investigations

Thorough, impartial, and confidential investigations conducted at all levels of the organization — from executive leadership to staff.

Legal Advice & Counsel

Practical, real-time guidance on day-to-day labor and employment matters — from disciplinary decisions to policy interpretation — to facilitate informed decision-making and empower your managers to lead with confidence.

Training & Compliance

Customized training programs that equip managers and HR professionals with the knowledge to proactively manage workplace issues, identify and mitigate legal risks, ensure legal compliance, and maintain a respectful and productive workforce.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We help organizations design and implement initiatives to ensure equal employment opportunity and mitigate legal risks.

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Our approach

Healthy Relationships Are the Bedrock of Every Workplace.

Most workplace problems don't start with legal disputes — they start with broken trust, unclear expectations, and unresolved tension. We believe that strong employee relations is both a legal imperative and business one. Our work is grounded in the conviction that when organizations invest in relational dynamics, legal compliance follows — and workplaces thrive!

"Proactive beats reactive. Every time."

Featured offering

Be an Employer of Choice: Positive Employee Relations & Collective Bargaining Training

The most competitive organizations don't just avoid labor disputes — they build workplaces where employees want to stay and unions struggle to gain a foothold. Becoming an employer of choice is a strategic advantage, and it starts with equipping your leaders with the right knowledge. Our training is designed and delivered by a seasoned labor and employment attorney and executive who has served with the NLRB, sat at the bargaining table representing employers, and led enterprise-wide employee and labor relations strategies across a broad spectrum of industries — including healthcare, hospitality, public safety, higher education, government, non-profit, television, radio, and cultural arts. Your leaders learn from someone with deep, cross-industry experience in both the legal and business sides of labor and employee relations. And because our programs are tailored and efficiently delivered, they offer exceptional value at a fraction of the cost of reactive legal intervention.

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Customized training for executives, managers, and HR professionals

Part 1Hiding in Plain SightDemystifies federal labor law and empowers leaders with a clear understanding of their organization's rights and responsibilities when handling employee relations issues in the workplace — so they can act with confidence, not guesswork

Part 2Stay Ready So You Don't Have to Get ReadyEquips employers to examine workplace vulnerabilities, build the culture, practices, and reputation that attract and retain top talent, reduce union vulnerability, lawfully respond to union organizing drives, and manage the petition process

Part 3Play to Your StrengthsLearn about strategic collective bargaining, contract implementation, and administration

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About us

We Work at the Intersection of Law, Business, and People.

People Savvy Solutions was founded on the belief that great workplaces don't happen by accident — they're built through intentional, expert-guided employee and labor relations practices and compliance with applicable labor and employment laws, combining deep legal knowledge with a relational approach that gets to the root of workplace and labor-management challenges. And because we operate as a specialized, independent consultancy, our clients receive senior-level expertise at rates far more competitive than large law firms burdened by extensive overhead — without any compromise in quality or depth of experience.

Proactive over reactive
Practical, not theoretical
Trusted advisor and thought partner
Clear guidance over legalese
Relational not transactional

Why People Savvy Solutions

Executive-Level Counsel. Practical Solutions. Exceptional Value.

Most organizations turn to large law firms for labor and employment support — and pay premium rates for associates and partners. People Savvy Solutions offers something different: direct access to a seasoned labor attorney and executive with deep, cross-industry experience on both the legal and business sides of labor and employee relations. No nickel-and-dime billing. No generalists. Just focused, high-caliber counsel at predictable rates that reflect our lean model.

Deep expertise

Decades of hands-on experience across legal, executive, and advisory roles — not textbook knowledge

Cross-industry breadth

Healthcare, higher education, hospitality, public safety, media, cultural arts, and more

Competitive rates

Senior-level counsel without the overhead of large firm billing structures

Focused practice

Labor & Employment and employee relations are all we do — not one of dozens of practice areas

Meet the Founder and Managing Partner

Letitia Silas

Attorney, Strategist, & Trusted Advisor

Career highlights

Led labor relations strategy for the University of California system, California's largest employer — 137,000 union employees, 38 CBAs, 17 unions
Achieved 8 statewide CBAs for a $36B enterprise in under two years — a record high
Led strike contingency strategy navigating a statewide, five-week strike by 48,000 employees with no loss of operations, instruction, or safety
Led labor and ER strategy for the Howard University enterprise — university, Level 1 Trauma hospital, police force, radio station, and public TV station across eight bargaining units
Compliance program resulting in resolution of three NLRB and D.C. Circuit Court consent orders, saving $300,000+ in fines
NLRB attorney — investigated, litigated, and tried complex labor law cases with widespread economic implications
Bar Admissions: United States Supreme Court, District of Columbia, Maryland, and Massachusetts

Letitia Silas is a seasoned labor & employment attorney and executive whose career spans the private, public, government, and in-house sectors. She has built a reputation as a trusted advisor to boards, CEOs, executive leadership teams, and HR professionals on complex labor relations, employee relations, workplace strategy, and organizational change.

Following executive leadership roles overseeing enterprise-wide labor relations for some of the nation's most complex organizations, Letitia intentionally joined a boutique, high-growth labor and employment law firm to help build and expand its emerging traditional labor practice. Drawing on her executive and legal experience, she developed the firm's strategic labor relations platform — including a successful three-part executive masterclass on positive employee relations, labor relations, and collective bargaining — and launched a workplace law podcast that equips employers with practical strategies for navigating today's evolving workplace landscape.

Previously, Letitia served as Executive Director of Labor Relations for the University of California, where she established the strategic vision and enterprise-wide labor relations strategy for a $36 billion institution with more than 130,000 union-represented employees across ten campuses, five academic medical centers, a national laboratory, and affiliated enterprises. Earlier, as Senior Labor Counsel and Director of Labor Relations for Howard University, she led the University's labor relations strategy and served as a key advisor to executive leadership on collective bargaining, employee relations, and workforce strategy.

Letitia began her career in public service as an Equal Employment Opportunity Specialist and Compliance Officer with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). After earning her law degree, she joined the National Labor Relations Board as an investigator and trial attorney, developing her litigation, investigative, and advocacy skills in both the Boston and Washington, D.C., Regional Offices. This unique foundation in federal enforcement, combined with executive leadership and private practice experience, enables her to provide practical, business-focused counsel that aligns legal strategy with organizational objectives.

Our team

Experienced Support for Every Engagement

Maya Austin

Assistant to the Managing Partner & Labor Relations Advisor

Maya serves as Assistant to the Managing Partner, overseeing firm administrative processes and providing executive support in all labor relations matters, including labor-management relations, contract negotiations, grievance processing and dispute resolution. She brings two decades of experience in customer service and collective bargaining, with a background in a range of support roles for the Communication Workers of America, Local 9505, including Chief Steward and Secretary/Treasurer.

Strategic Collective Bargaining, Contract Implementation & Administration: Covers the entire bargaining process, strike contingency planning, managing grievances, and asserting management rights

Trusted by enterprise teams

Trusted Advisor to Business, Legal, Operational, and Human Resource Leaders

"Letitia brought a level of labor and employee relations legal expertise and practical judgment that our internal team simply didn't have. She helped us navigate complex labor issues and volatile labor-management relations with professionalism, grace, and care — and we came out with our business needs met and our culture intact."
Chief Legal Officer

Get in touch

Ready for a New Approach to the Workplace?

Whether you're managing an active issue or building a more resilient employee relations strategy, we're ready to help. Let's start with a conversation.

We typically respond within one business day.

All inquiries are handled with complete confidentiality.

Initial consultations are complimentary.