1. John C. Mills, Esq.
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT:
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Plainsboro, New Jersey
Director, U.S. Employee and Workforce Relations (November 2015 to present)
• Supervisor of 3 ER Managers and 5 ER Specialists
• Designed and Implemented Centralized ER Service Delivery Model in support of
Company’s HR Operating Model Transformation for 12,000 U.S. & Puerto Rico
Employees
• Designed Strategic Framework for the Analysis of ER Data to Drive Capability,
Organizational Health and Engagement Initiatives
• Investigate Executive-level and Complex Discrimination Complaints
• Cultivate Strategic Partnership with Senior HR Leaders, HR Attorneys and Compliance
& Ethics Leader
Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Director, North American Employee Relations Resource Group (March 2008 to November 2015)
Employee Relations Sector Leader for U.S. Corporate, Consumer and Pharmaceuticals Sectors—
September 2010 to present
• Manager of ER Sectors with 2 Professional Level Direct Reports
• Provide Supervision, Direction and Guidance on Investigation of and Drafting
Responses to EEOC and state agency discrimination charges,
• Investigate complex internal discrimination, wage and hour, regulatory compliance and
other employee relations claims at executive, professional and hourly employee level
• Drafted Employment Law Toolkits for Human Resources and Line Managers on FLSA,
Discrimination, Reasonable Accommodation (Disability and Religious) and
Immigration.
• Advice and Counsel on variety of U.S. and State Employment Law issues
• Designed and Implemented Global Employee Relations External Trends Project on
Compliance, Engagement and Political Trends
Automatic Data Processing, Roseland, New Jersey
Senior Director, Employment Law Services Department
• Management of ADP’s Pre-Employment and Advanced Background Check Program within
the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada, Supervisor of 2 Direct Reports Processing Background
Checks
• Advising and Counseling Human Resources Management on Complex Employment Law
Issues in U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada; Investigating Complex Discrimination, Wage and
Hour, and Other Employee Relations Complaints, Designed and Facilitated Anti-Harassment
Training for Executives and Managers, Designed On-line Harassment Prevention Training
Module for hourly and non-management employees
• Regulatory Compliance with Equal Employment Opportunity Laws; Reviewing and
Finalizing Affirmative Action Plans for Submission to U.S.D.O.L. Office of Federal Contract
Compliance Programs;
• Responded to wage and hour audits throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico involving sales
commissions, call center employees’ unpaid wages and overtime claims, FLSA exempt status
of call center employees, independent contractor classifications, etc.
2. • Led and supervised re-design of HR Policies throughout the U.S.
McCarter & English, LLP
Employment Litigation Associate, September 1994-January 2000:
• Responding to wage and hour audits, discrimination charges and claims, on behalf of
management, etc.
• Successfully tried administrative challenge to a pharmacist’s overtime claims
• Provided Direction and Supervision to Junior and Summer Associates on variety of complex
employment litigation matters,
• Researching and Writing Complex Pleadings and Briefs for Submission to State and Federal
Courts on variety of employment law issues,
• Advising and Counseling Clients on Complex Employment Law Issues throughout the U.S.
Honorable Joseph E. Irenas, U.S.D.J., United States District Court, Camden, New Jersey
Law Clerk September 1993-August 1994:
• Researched and Wrote Draft Opinions, Bench Memoranda and Jury Charges on wide-range
of complex civil, criminal and procedural legal issues,
• Managed Criminal and Civil Motions Calendar
Honorable William H. Walls, J.S.C., Newark, New Jersey
Law Clerk, September 1992-August 1993, Superior Court of New Jersey, Civil Division, Essex
County, Law Clerk 1992-1993,
• Researched and Wrote Bench Memoranda on Civil Litigation Motions,
• Managed Motion Calendar
EDUCATION:
Rutgers School of Law - Newark, New Jersey
JD Conferred, May 1992,
• Honors: Cum Laude, Order of the Coif, Alumni Prize for Promising Legal Career.
Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Bachelor of Arts, May 1985, Major-Political
Science, Minor-English, Mini-Statistics,
• Honors: Cum Laude; Dean’s List 3 out of 4 Semesters, Selected to Attend Center for the
Study of the American Presidency Symposium on Behalf of Rutgers University, May 1985.
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, September 1981-May 1983,
• Honors: Dean’s List 3 out of 4 semesters, Semi-finalist for Harry S. Truman Government
Scholarship Award
BAR ADMISSIONS:
New Jersey 1992, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey 1992
ACTIVITIES:
Sidney Reitmann Employment Law Inn of Court, September 1997-January 2000, and
September 2003-May 2005, Barrister
New Jersey State Board of Bar Examiners, Vice Chairman, May 2013-Present; November
2002-May 2008, Bar Examiner