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Showing posts with label Employment agreements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Employment agreements. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

How many chances does an employee get under a "Last Chance Agreement"?

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When is a Last Chance Agreement not a "last chance" agreement? When the 6th Circuit reviews it, apparently. In Moore v. Coca Cola ...
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

YouTuber faces legal challenge against his overly broad severance agreement

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"Employer and Employee agree to keep the existence and terms of this Agreement confidential and to not disclose its provisions to anyon...
Thursday, July 27, 2023

6th Circuit opinion guts the validity of e-signatures on employment documents

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"I never saw that agreement and I never signed it." That's all that Andrew Bazemore said under oath in defense of Papa John...
Thursday, March 23, 2023

NLRB General Counsel goes nuclear on severance agreements in her guidance on McLaren Macomb

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NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo just released her  Guidance in Response to Inquiries about the McLaren Macomb Decision .  Recall that...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

NLRB bans non-disparagement and confidentiality covenants in severance agreements. What now?

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Is it time to rip up your stock severance agreement? Consider the following two clauses, which I bet your standard agreement contains in som...
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Pretext for termination ≠ cause for termination

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Shortly after Elon Musk closed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, he cleaned out its C-suite. He fired CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Sega...
Monday, July 11, 2022

This is why I (almost) always recommend that employers provide terminated employees a reasonable severance package

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Roosevelt Jointer worked as a maintenance supervisor at Tesla from September 2017 until last month. That was when his manager called him ove...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Federal appeals court rejects reliability of electronic signatures on employment agreements

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During a webinar I recently conducted on employee handbooks, someone asked me a question about the best practice between wet signatures vs. ...
Thursday, August 8, 2019

Who owns intellectual property created for a company?

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Growing up in Philadelphia, there are few things more beloved than the Phillie Phanatic. Which is why I’m so intrigued by the lawsuit th...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

What does a valid jury waiver look like?

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Earlier this year, the Senate took up the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act . It would, among other things, prohibit employers from ...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

NLRB continues to slam employers on mandatory arbitration clauses

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Last week, the Huffington Post reported that Guitar Center was requiring all of its employees to choose between signing arbitration agre...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Don’t call the whole thing off when negotiating IP rights with employees

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Tomaydo-Tomahhdo is a local sandwich shop, and a purveyor of damn fine paninis and wraps. As for litigation, let’s say its lunches are way b...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

EEOC 0-2 on severance-agreement lawsuits … but does it matter?

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Recall that in October, a Chicago federal court dismissed a lawsuit filed by the EEOC against CVS, claiming that the pharmacy retailer’s se...
Monday, October 13, 2014

“Faithfully” considering performance obligations in employment contracts

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Ken Adams, writing at his always insightful blog, Adams on Contract Drafting , comments on the use of terms such as “faithfully” to describe...