The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has formally withdrawn its defense of the nationwide non-compete ban, a signature rule of the Biden-era agency. The ban, intended to curb restrictive employment contracts and enhance worker mobility, faced immediate legal challenges—most notably from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business coalitions—which questioned the FTC’s authority to impose…
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In this informative 75-minute webinar (including a question and answer session at the end), Hirschfeld Kraemer Partners Derek Ishikawa, Ferry Lopez and Monte Grix will cover major employment law developments for 2024 and help you get thinking of what your business needs to do to avoid being a target of litigation. The topics to be…
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No later than Valentine’s Day 2024, California employers will be required to send “candy grams” to former and existing employees with unenforceable non-competes informing them that those provisions are void. Complicating this new legal requirement is an expanded definition of what constitutes an unenforceable non-compete and the creation of a new legal claim that can…
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The employment law landscape is always shifting, and there’s a lot to navigate, especially as the pandemic drags into its third year. On February 14, 2022, Hirschfeld Kraemer lawyers Steve Hirschfeld, Hieu Williams, Monte Grix, and Ferry Lopez presented a 90-minute webinar providing insight on the hottest developments in labor and employment law in 2021,…
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On March 17, 2020, Hirschfeld Kraemer’s Christine Helwick was a guest on Employment Matters, the Employment Law Alliance (ELA) podcast. In this episode, Issues Arising with US Employees Working Remotely in Other Countries, Christine provides some updates on issues in long-term working relationships with foreign citizens working remotely from their home countries. Employment Matters is…
Read More ›Most employee handbooks are nearly identical to each other, regardless of the industry, workforce size or the jurisdictions in which business is conducted. Very little thought is given to the purpose behind these policies, how they impact and reflect your corporate culture and what they are designed to actually accomplish. At best, most companies slightly…
Read More ›Last month, President Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”) into law, which permits plaintiffs to bring civil claims for misappropriation of trade secrets in federal court. While trade secret theft has been a federal crime since 1996, civil claims for such theft were, until now, generally available only through the state courts. That state-level…
Read More ›Because of California’s employee-friendly laws on agreements containing restrictive covenants, whenever possible, employers include foreign state choice of law and forum selection provisions. This frequently leads to a proverbial “race to the courthouse” with the first filing party arguing that its case should be heard and the later filed case stayed or dismissed. This artifice…
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