Imagine this scenario: Your top sales representative is traveling for work. He has a briefcase with your company’s logo on it. He decides to stop at a restaurant at the airport before catching his flight. While at the restaurant, he…
Yearly Archives: 2018
Do You Know What Your Employees Are Talking About In Public? How To Avoid The Inadvertent Disclosure of Your Company’s Confidential Information
Posted in Labor & Employment
Three Workplace Shootings in 24 Hours: Now Is the Time to Take Action
Workplace violence is one of the most troubling issues keeping HR professionals and in-house counsel up at night – and with good reason. Just last week alone, there were three workplace shootings in a span of 24 hours. In 2018,…
Posted in Labor & Employment
Good Intentions May Not Be Enough: The Hidden Dangers of “Maternity Leave” Policies
Many employers go above and beyond any legal requirements in providing paid or unpaid leave benefits to employees to bond with their child. So what could be bad about that? Well, check your employee handbook. Do you have a maternity…
Posted in Labor & Employment
An Apple a Day: Why Building Positive Employee Relations Can Keep the Outsiders Away
An obvious key to maintaining good employee relations is to keep employees satisfied with their work and their work environment. While it is, of course, impossible to keep all of your employees happy and satisfied at all times, it is…
Posted in Labor & Employment
Updated FMLA Forms with the Class Syllabus
On September 4, 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division rolled out “updated” FMLA compliance forms and, despite containing no substantive changes, if your company uses the model FMLA forms, these new forms should be utilized starting…
Posted in Wage and Hour
Fight Heats Up Over Sick Pay in Texas Cities
San Antonio City Council approved a Paid Sick Leave Ordinance on Thursday, August 16, 2018, which allows workers to accrue up to 64 hours of paid sick leave each year. This law largely tracks the recent Austin sick pay ordinance,…
Five Tips for Protecting Your Company’s Trade Secrets
Protecting your trade secrets and proprietary information is a vital part of your business. Every company needs to have policies and agreements in place to prevent employees from stealing property, and wrongfully soliciting your employees and customers when they leave…
Tagged with: employment agreements, human resources, loyalty agreements
Posted in Labor & Employment
Posted in Labor & Employment
New Bill is Preview of What Might Happen if Congress Flips in November
Many pollsters are predicting Congress could switch from Republican to Democratic control in November. It has been quite some time since we have seen any significant employment legislation from the Congress, but a newly invigorated Democrat Congress might get busy…
Should Companies Change Harassment Training in the Wake of #Metoo?
One of the benefits of the recent #Metoo movement is that companies in every industry are rethinking not only employment policies, but their approach to training and organizational culture. I was recently interviewed for an article on how companies should…
Posted in Uncategorized
How Should Employers Respond to #MeToo?
The #MeToo movement started as a wave of press coverage exposing long-suppressed stories of sexual harassment and exploitation in Hollywood. That movement, however, has now gone far beyond Harvey Weinstein. High-profile cases involving judges, news anchors, politicians, and CEOs have…
Posted in Uncategorized
