Alexander T. MacDonald

amacdonald@littler.com
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Alexander T. MacDonald advises employers on all aspects of the employment and labor landscape, focusing on emerging legislation and regulation. He has extensive experience advising businesses on worker classification, arbitration, the administrative and regulatory process, and the future of work. He frequently writes, publishes, and speaks on these subjects. His work has been cited by scholars and appellate courts. He is a recognized voice for the management perspective.

Alexander is a co-chair of the Workplace Policy Institute (WPI) team. With WPI, he advises employers on legislative, administrative, and regulatory developments at the state and federal level. He advocates for employers in the regulatory and administrative process. He also helps employers protect their businesses by understanding and anticipating cutting-edge legal developments.  

Alexander also has extensive experience in traditional labor law. He represents management in all aspects of labor-management relations, including unfair labor practice charges, grievance arbitrations, representation elections, contract negotiations, and related litigation, including litigation in the U.S. courts of appeals.  

Before joining Littler, Alexander served as the director, future of work, for a major technology company. He also worked in a national labor and employment law firm and a major public-sector general counsel’s office. He was a law clerk to the senior judges in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

He is also a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. He served in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. In law school, he graduated first in his class.

Credentials & Recognition

Speaking Engagements

Litigation Update: Wilcox v. Trump

  • March 5, 2025
  • Federalist Society Webinar

What Loper Bright Means for Employment and Labor Law

  • January 9, 2025
  • American Law Institute CLE

A Look Ahead: Exploring the Impact of the November 2024 U.S. Election for Total Rewards Professionals

  • November 20, 2024
  • World at Work Total Rewards Association Webinar

Worker-Classification Trends: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going, and Why Every Lawyer Should Care

  • November 12, 2024
  • Federalist Society, Widener University Delaware Law School Students Chapter

How 2024 Could Transform Labor and Employment Law: From The Supreme Court’s 2024 Term to the Election

  • October 9, 2024
  • World at Work Total Rewards Summit Series: Arlington

Conservative Populism and the Future of the Right’s Relationship with Organized Labor

  • September 23, 2024
  • The Federalist Society

Litigation After Loper: Effects on Agency Practice

  • August 15, 2024
  • Bloomberg Webinar

How To Navigate DOL's Latest Independent Contractor & Davis-Bacon Laws

  • May 15, 2024
  • National Association of Home Builders

Special Sessions: What Does the Biden Administration's "Whole-of-Government" Approach Mena for Employers and Workers?

  • May 9, 2024
  • Littler Executive Employer Conference, Phoenix, AZ

Joint Employer: Are Franchise Companies in the Clear?

  • April 23, 2024
  • International Franchise Association (IFA)

Natural Law & Labor Law

  • April 9, 2024
  • James Wilson Institute Webinar

U.S. Department of Labor Finalizes Independent Contractor Regulation

  • February 12, 2024
  • Federal Bar Association CLE

Labor After Loper

  • February 2, 2024
  • The Federalist Society

The Future of Unionization: What Employers Need to Know

  • October 26, 2023
  • International Food Distributors Association

Biden’s Big Labor is Bad for Business

  • October 13, 2023
  • Heritage Foundation

Whole of Government White Paper

  • October 13, 2023
  • U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, DC

Contract Labor in the Hospitality and Service Industries

  • October 11, 2023
  • American Hotel and Lodging Association, Washington, DC

The FTC’s Noncompete Rule: From Henry IV to the “Major Questions Doctrine”

  • March 28, 2023
  • Federalist Society Atlanta Chapter

Courthouse Steps: Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters

  • January 10, 2023
  • Federalist Society Practice Groups Virtual Event

Panel Discussion of AB 5

  • June 25, 2020
  • Federalist Society San Diego Lawyers Chapter

State Regulators and the Gig Economy

  • June 25, 2020
  • Regulatory Transparency Project Podcast

Navigating the CARES Act: Common Questions and Key Takeaways for Small Businesses

  • April 2, 2020
  • Client Webinar

Hot Topic Roundup

  • June 7, 2019
  • 2019 Mid-Atlantic Employer Conference, Bethesda, MD

Common Employer Questions: Paycheck Protection Program and Emergency Disaster Injury Loans

  • April 23, 2019
  • Client Webinar

Additional Thought Leadership

Contextual Textualism: How Legislative History Can Restrain Judges, Revitalize Congress, and Restore the Conservative Legal Movement

  • September 2023
  • University of La Verne Law Review

Is the Administrative State Inevitable? Loper, Chevron, and the “Abnegation” of Law

  • August 16, 2023
  • Federalist Society

The War on Independent Work: Why Some Regulators Want to Abolish Independent Contracting, Why they Keep Failing, and Why We Should Declare Peace

  • August 2023
  • Federalist Society Review

Is Glacier Northwest the Tip of the Iceberg?

  • June 6, 2023
  • Federalist Society

Double Dribble: The NLRB’s General Counsel Revives a Debunked Legal Theory to Expand Labor Law into College Athletics

  • June 1, 2023
  • Federalist Society

A Bug in the Logic: Regulators Try to Solve the “AI Problem” Before Finding any Problem to Solve

  • April 17, 2023
  • Federalist Society

The FTC’s Indefensible Position on Collective Bargaining

  • April 7, 2023
  • Federalist Society

The Department of Labor’s Independent Contractor Rule: A Quiet Threat to Federalism?

  • March 30, 2023
  • Federalist Society

Are Agency Fees Unconstitutional in the Private Sector?

  • February 24, 2023
  • Federalist Society

The FTC’s Ahistorical Attack on Noncompetes

  • January 24, 2023
  • Federalist Society

Secondary Picketing, Trade Restraints, and the First Amendment: A Historical and Practical Case for Legal Stability

  • January 2023
  • Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal

Railways, Unions, and Policy Dissonance

  • December 6, 2022
  • Federalist Society

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