What Are My Workplace Rights During the Coronavirus Outbreak?
The new Families First Coronavirus Response Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and standards set forth by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) are playing roles in decisions being made by employers for their workers.
Mistakes Employers Make When Requiring & Conducting Workplace Drug & Alcohol Tests
Employees often trust their employers’ polices to be well researched and vetted through counsel. However, drug and alcohol policies are often purposefully vague to give the employer the upper hand. For employees, it is always advisable to educate yourself on your state and local drug and alcohol testing laws, and speak with your HR team […]
What Do I Do If I Have Experienced Sexual Harassment?
If you have experienced sexual harassment at work, it is important to act quickly to protect yourself and protect your right to pursue legal action if you desire. If you are the victim of sexual harassment in the workplace, take the following three steps to protect yourself and your rights to a legal remedy.
What are my Maternity Rights as an Employee?
If you’re pregnant, you may be wondering what your rights are in the workplace. Unfortunately, pregnancy standards and laws in the United States can be complex, varying state-by-state and by each individual company. To further complicate, there is also currently no federal law that applies to everyone in the US for maternity leave.
Do I Need a Lawyer to Review my Non-Compete Agreement?
Has an employer presented you with a non-compete agreement? If your employer has asked you to sign a non-compete, you should know what rights you are relinquishing.
Temporary & Preliminary Injunctions
After the filing of a lawsuit, a party can ask the judge to issue a temporary injunction. The temporary injunction seeks to require the other party to either commit a certain act or to prohibit it from performing a particular action. In a business or commercial law context, injunctions are often sought to enforce a […]
FORMING A FLORIDA LLC – WITH YOUR SPOUSE
Creditors of a Florida single member LLC (“SMLLC”) are able to reach the assets of SMLLC by obtaining a charging order and then foreclosing on the member’s interest. However, if an LLC has multi-members, creditors are limited to distributions that a debtor member would ordinarily receive from the LLC. To prevent a foreclosure of a […]
“Baseball” Arbitration for Commercial Leases
As a means to set a player’s salary when he became a free agent, the arbitration process became a mainstay in baseball. Similarly, a commercial lease should include a baseball arbitration clause to prevent a protracted dispute between the owner and tenant. Often a commercial lease uses fair market value as the method to determine […]
Taking Flight – Drone regulations
Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) known as drones are readily available and can even be purchased at Target or Toys “R” Us. However the federal government deems drones to be aircrafts and subject to Federal Aviation Administration regulations. For one thing, all buyers must register their drone. Registration can be done online by completing a short […]
ONE MORE REASON FOR A NONCOMPETE AGREEMENT — INEVITABLE DISCLOSURE DOCTRINE
A noncompete agreement is a standard business agreement to prevent a former employee from competing against you upon his departure from the company. When such an agreement is not in place, employers have to scramble for a solution to prevent the former employee from disclosing confidential information to the new employer. In particular, litigators are […]