Employment Agreements
Thanks to Gwen Moran, reporter for Entrepreneur.com for interviewing & quoting me for her 11/19/13 article about firing employees who lie. The article is below. I should point out that in real instances, clients & I have decided not to fire employees who stole money or items from work with the understanding that they sign [...]
A friend of mine, Daliah Saper, of Saper Law Offices, is giving the following seminar. Daliah is an intellectual property and business attorney, and an adjunct professor at Loyola University Chicago College of Law. Does your company manufacture, distribute, or sell products and/or services by utilizing a sales force? Are you a sales professional, selling [...]
My post on "rusing" or "ruse calling" led to a number of interesting and instructive comments. I thought that it might be worthwhile to respond to them in a single post. First, I think that it's a novel concept to equate employees as being the same as "property," especially in the context of criminally convicting [...]
A client recently asked me about a new State of Illinois law the Employee Classification Act (if the link is expired, then check Google), public act 095-0026, which became effective January 1, 2008. I thought that a brief post might be useful considering that there might be some confusion regarding this Act. Additionally, I've noticed [...]
Sometimes a reader's comment is so on target that it's worth its own post. Fellow attorney Michael Moore of Russell, Krafft & Gruber, LLP, in Lancaster, PA, sent me the following comment concerning my December 2, 2007, post "Response to Reader's Questions Regarding Severance & Separation Agreements." Chuck: The strength of a severance agreement containing [...]
