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Federal Regulators Taking Aim at Anti-Competitive Employment Practices -
Employers in every sector use restrictive covenants to guard against loss of institutional knowledge, relationships, and training. ...more
9/1/2021
/ Construction Project ,
Construction Workers ,
Employment Contract ,
Employment Policies ,
Foreign Nationals ,
Foreign Workers ,
Immigration Procedures ,
National Interest Waiver ,
No-Poaching ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Non-Solicitation Agreements ,
Restrictive Covenants ,
Vaccinations
Employers in every sector use restrictive covenants to guard against loss of institutional knowledge, relationships, and training. These restrictive covenants come in three forms: “non-competition,” “non-solicitation,” and...more
8/27/2021
/ Best Practices ,
Confidential Information ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Labor Reform ,
Labor Regulations ,
No-Poaching ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Non-Solicitation Agreements ,
Restrictive Covenants
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U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Burr's Petition for the South Carolina Election Commission: South Carolina's Witness Requirement on Absentee Ballots is Here to Stay -
On October 5th, the Supreme Court...more
10/30/2020
/ Absentee Voting ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
H-1B ,
Health Care Providers ,
Immigration Reform ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Masks ,
OSHA ,
Political Campaigns ,
Presidential Elections ,
Retirement Plan ,
Right to Vote ,
SCOTUS ,
Wage and Hour ,
Witnesses ,
Workplace Safety
Spotlight -
U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Burr's Petition for the South Carolina Election Commission: South Carolina's Witness Requirement on Absentee Ballots is Here to Stay -
On October 5th, the Supreme Court...more
10/27/2020
/ Absentee Voting ,
Business Litigation ,
Cybersecurity ,
Employee Rights ,
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ,
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) ,
Liability Insurance ,
Mail-In Ballots ,
Phishing Scams ,
Political Campaigns ,
Remote Proceedings ,
Right to Vote ,
SCOTUS ,
Wage and Hour
Do you know what your state requires when it comes to allowing employees time off to vote? Find out which states require voting leave and what employer actions might interfere with employees’ voting rights. ...more
10/6/2020
/ Adverse Employment Action ,
Employee Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Federal Elections ,
Labor Regulations ,
Presidential Elections ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
State and Local Government ,
State Elections ,
State Labor Laws ,
Voting Leave ,
Voting Rights ,
Wage and Hour
Last week, the National Labor Relations Board overruled portions of a 2001 decision and, as a practical matter, created a new procedure that an employer may follow when its employees indicate that they no longer wish for...more
7/11/2019
/ Collective Bargaining ,
Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Johnson Controls ,
Labor Regulations ,
Labor Relations ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Union Representatives ,
Unions ,
Withdrawal
Those involved in drafting, negotiating, or litigating covenants-not-to-compete in Alabama have long known that Alabama’s statute books seldom provide ready answers on this particular topic. The text of current Alabama Code...more
On October 2, 2014, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit rendered its decision in Inetianbor v. CashCall, Inc. Although this case did not involve a non-compete agreement, the Eleventh Circuit’s guidance...more
Last month, a federal judge in Mobile, Alabama denied an employer’s request for a preliminary injunction seeking to stop that employer’s former employee from working for an alleged competitor. See Dawson v. Ameritox, Ltd.,...more
On December 3, 2013, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in Atlantic Marine Construction Co. v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. The facts in Atlantic Marine did not involve a...more
In many disputes over non-competition agreements, the litigation focuses on obtaining the temporary restraining order and/or preliminary injunction to stop the competition before the real damage is done....more
The National Labor Relations Act (the “NLRA”) has always applied to both unionized and non-unionized workplaces. However, one of the priorities of President Obama’s appointees to the National Labor Relations Board (the...more
When a job applicant discloses a non-compete agreement with a former employer, the prospective employer may already be aware that, if the applicant is hired, the former employer might sue for “tortious interference.” ...more