Many potential clients, friends and some folks I barely know share their knowledge with me about employment law. Unfortunately, many of them are flat wrong. Here are a few of the more common employment law myths I encounter.
“At will” employment means an employee can be fired for anything.” Texas is an at-will
A non-compete clause for physicians requires adherence to certain criteria to be effective in Texas. Texas has a state law applicable to physician noncompete agreements.
You work for a company for 30 years, acquire a skill, and then join a new, smaller company doing the same job. You think you have reached a certain level of success. But, no, you have not. That is Teresa Jackson’s exprience. She worked for the Scooter Store in Newe Braunfels, Texas for over 31
The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that stock options will indeed support a non-compete agreement. See last week’s Texas Supreme Court opinion in Marsh USA Inc. v. Cook.
I previously wrote about this case here and here. The Dallas appeals court had found in 2009 that stock options would not support a covenant not
So, you have a LInkedin account. As with most users, many of your contacts are co-workers. You leave your employer and send messages to your contacts on Linkedin. Is that a problem? It is a problem, if you have a non-compete with your former employer in which you agreed to not contact former your former
Texas law on non-compete agreements is stricter than many states. In Texas, the non-compete can be enforceable only if the employer provides some sort of confidential information in exchange for the non-compete agreement. Typically, the employer provides some trade secret or other proprietary information. Mike Maslanka pens another excellent post and discusses the state
Eight ways to lose a non-compete case. See gruntled employees blog to see how an employer can lose a lawsuit regarding a former employee who has apparently violated a noncompete agreement. The post provides a nice summary regarding what to avoid.