The Department of Labor’s new Fair Labor Standards Act Overtime Final Rule, that was scheduled to go into effect on December 1, 2016, was recently blocked nationwide by a Texas federal judge. In March of 2014, President Barack Obama directed the Department of Labor to “modernize and streamline the existing overtime regulations for executive, administrative, and professional employees.” Under [...]
Interested in the possibility of creating an employee handbook? A bit lost on where to start? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. When companies grow and add new employees, they may find that they have a lot of company policies, procedures, and other information that they need to give their employees. One way to give employees a lot of [...]
A note on this post: this blog post is the last post in our series, "Non-Compete Agreements: When are they valid, and when can the new employer be sued for an employee breach?" In this post we will discuss what employers can do to make their non-compete agreements with their employees valid. This will be our last post in [...]
A note on this post: this blog post is part of our series "Non-Compete Agreements: When are they valid, and when can the new employer be sued for an employee breach?" In this post we discuss what damages and remedies can be granted to an employer when their former employee breaches a non-compete agreement by working for a competitor. [...]
A note on this post: this blog post is part of our series, "Non-Compete Agreements: When are they valid, and when can the new employer be sued for an employee breach?" In this post we will discuss what new employers can do to avoid liability for employees breaching non-compete agreements with former employers. To learn what kind of damages [...]