Martin F. Payson is a Labor Partner in the national workplace law firm of Jackson Lewis LLP. Since joining the firm in 1967, Mr. Payson has specialized in the practice of labor and employment law representing the interests of management.

Mr. Payson has been an outspoken opponent of “EFCA” - the Employee Free Choice Act as he believes it would make both bad law and bad public policy. He believes it represents a fundamental attack on the principles of democracy, informed decision making, and the secret ballot. Substituting the public card count procedure for the private ballot constitutes an unwarranted invasion of privacy subjecting workplace voters to coercion, intimidation, embarrassment and public ridicule by union organizers and peer pressure by aggressive coworkers.

Mr. Payson is also a contributing author for the EFCA and Labor Law Reform Blog which can be found at www.efcablog.com