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How Do Employers Navigate Evolving Landscape of Restrictive Covenants Following NLRB's McLaren Macomb Decision?

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The NLRB issued its order and decision last year in McLaren Macomb, holding that employers violate the NLRA by enforcing — or even offering — severance agreements containing overly broad confidentiality and non-disparagement...more

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In Good Hands: Compilation of Publicly Available Information Can Still Be a Trade Secret

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The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed a district court decision, finding that a compilation of customer-related information, even if publicly available, is a protectable trade secret. Allstate Insurance Co....more

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High drama at the Rag-O-Rama: Court addresses poorly-worded employment agreement

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Employees are presumptively deemed to be “at-will” in virtually every state. Recently, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (which oversees federal courts in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee)...more

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Pay Up: Colorado Supreme Court Clarifies Vacation Payout Obligations

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Colorado law has long been unsettled as to whether employers must pay out accrued but unused vacation time at separation of employment where the employer’s vacation policy recites that vacation time need not be paid out at...more

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Inventions Not Made Under Employment Agreement

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Applying a “middle ground” standard of review, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed a district court’s decision denying a company’s request for a declaratory judgment asking a former employee to assign...more

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Making Waves: Post-Employment Contract Assignment Provision Invalid Under California Law

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit invoked “precedents that are relevant but not directly on point” to examine when employment contract provisions may require assignment of inventions conceived post-employment...more

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Agreement Between the Parties Dictates Whether a Third Party Bonus Should be Included in the Calculation of Overtime Pay

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Q.  A client of my company asked whether it could offer production bonuses to our employees who deliver their work product prior to the deadline.  Does the FLSA require my company to account for these third-party bonuses when...more

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Take This Job And Shove It – Alabama Supreme Court Elaborates On “Voluntarily” Leaving Employment

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If you quit your job because of a hostile work environment, is it still “voluntary”? According to the Alabama Supreme Court’s July 12, 2019 opinion in Arnold v. Hyundai Manuf. Ala., LLC, it is. In Arnold, Hyundai hired Arnold...more

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Non-Compete News: Sixth Circuit Gives Attorneys' Fees to Employer

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This month, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s award of attorneys’ fees to an employer after it had been granted a preliminary injunction against its former employees. See Kelly...more

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Kentucky Supreme Court Rejects Conditioning Employment on Agreement to Arbitrate

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On September 27, 2018, the Kentucky Supreme Court in Northern Kentucky Area Development District v. Snyder held that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) does not preempt a Kentucky statute, KRS § 336.070(2), barring employers...more

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More Bumps in the Road for Uber along the Trade Secret Highway

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a California district court decision denying a trade secret defendant’s motion to compel arbitration based on a prior employment agreement between the plaintiff and an...more

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Right-to-Work Law Upheld

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Without much fanfare, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the Wisconsin Right-to-Work Law. The Right-to-Work Law passed in Wisconsin is similar to a law passed in Indiana and holds that a company may not enter...more

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Ninth Circuit Holds PAGA Claimants May Be Compelled To Arbitrate

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Terminix appealed from a district court order denying its motion to compel arbitration of a former employee’s representative claim under California’s Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) alleging that Terminix failed to...more

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Ninth Circuit Reaffirms Iskanian Rule, Rejects Waiver Of Representative Action Under PAGA

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Defendants appealed an order from a California federal district court that denied their motion to compel individual arbitration of a former employee’s representative claim under California’s Private Attorney General Act...more

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West Coast—Time to Check Your Employment Agreements: Ninth Circuit Negates No-Class Action Clause in Arbitration Agreements

This week, the Ninth Circuit held that Ernst & Young’s (E&Y) arbitration agreement that prohibited its employees from filing class actions violates the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). E&Y required as a condition of...more

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Ninth Circuit Strikes Class Arb Waivers

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals weighed in, today, on the propriety of class action arbitration waivers under the NLRA. The Court held that such waivers violate Sections 7 and 8 of the NLRA in the context of a pending...more

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