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Trade secrets (especially those relating to customers, pricing, costs and employees) can be a little like love taken for granted: You don’t notice it until its gone.
California law often protects such information (sometimes called “soft” trade secrets to distinguish them from product formulas and other “hard” trade secrets) from misuse by former employees
You Hire A Top Performing Employee From Your Competitor And Then She Brings Along “Her Team.”
You’ve been working for months to recruit a competitor’s star employee. She arrives at your office telling you that she resisted counteroffers and is now on board.
Almost immediately, her cell phone begins to ring. Subordinates and co-workers from
You Lose A Key Employee; And Then Another And Another …
One of the company’s highest paid employees has decided to look for greener pastures or even start her own company. She is an “at will” employee without a specific written agreement for a set term. She knows your customers and how to handle and
In September 2011, a federal jury in Virginia awarded DuPont $919.9 Million in a trade secret misappropriation case. DuPont brought the case against Kolon Industries, a South Korean competitor, claiming that Kolon misappropriated 149 of its trade secrets relating to its aramid fiber technology, which is used in products such as Kevlar body armor. The
Almost every employer offers some form of vacation leave to its employees. Some employers, following the lead of academia, also offer long-term employees sabbatical leaves so that they can “recharge their batteries” and hopefully return to work more productive and creative.
Employers must ensure that they have proper policies in place in characterizing sabbatical leave to avoid it from being considered as vacation leave. The difference is important: Vacation leave that has been earned but not used must be paid out at the time the employee’s employment ends; whereas, sabbatical leave does not.Continue Reading Employers Beware! Vacation v. Sabbatical Leaves
