Many employers have offices in multiple states, but want to have one form of employee agreement prohibiting solicitation of employees and customers. Since some state laws, namely California, may be too different to reconcile with other states, what sort of...
Question: My company recently terminated an employee, and we are very worried she accessed her email inappropriately in the days before she was fired. The timing of it all is … well, quirky. Here’s what happened: The employee’s manager met...
Question: We believe our former employee recently stole some of our trade secrets and went to a competitor. Can we rely on the Defend Trade Secrets Act to bring suit in federal court?
Question: I saw something on the news about some new trade secrets legislation. What’s going on with that? Will it help employers better protect their trade secrets?
Question: Our company uses agreements to try to protect our confidential and proprietary information. One of our former sales employees recently left us to work for a competing company. We have evidence he took with him our confidential information about...
Question: Our company uses non-compete and non-solicit agreements that bar former employees from having contact with any client of our company after they leave. One former employee who recently left is now claiming the agreement is invalid because it is...
Question: One of our company’s employees recently left to start a competing business. We think he started this process while he was still employed by us, and that he is probably using information he learned from us. We’re in California,...
Quirky Question # 141: One of our sales employees recently left our company. He now is starting to call on our customers. It appears that he may have some of our customer lists in his possession. We do not have...
When Workers Steal Data to Use at New Jobs Despite some negative case law, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is an effective tool for employers. In response to the economic crisis, companies have downsized, resulting in some terminated employees...
Quirky Question # 78: I am the HR Director at our company. I just learned that one of our most valuable employees has resigned and taken a position with a competitor. I requested our IT Department to make an evaluation...
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