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A trade secret is a form of intellectual property that is something that is of independent value because it is not generally known. The trade secret must be kept secret and the way it’s protected is in 2 ways: 1) It’s secrecy has to be maintained. For example, the Coca-Cola formula is something that is…

A salary employee is someone who gets a fixed amount of money, regardless of the number of hours worked.

If the employer refuses to pay severance pay, the first question the employee has to ask is was there a contractual obligation of the employer to pay severance pay. Typically there is not. Many times, executive level employees will have written contractual agreements that state that they’re entitled to a certain amount of severance pay…

There are damages only if there is a contractual obligation for the employer to pay severance pay. Severance pay means that the employer is going to pay a certain amount of money at the end of the employment relationship. Some employees have written agreements ahead of time, where there has been a promise by the…

Deductions from an employee’s wages typically are going to be taxes such as social security tax, medicare tax, federal income tax withholding. Sometimes there’ll be other things that are required by the government to withhold such as child support. Typically though an employer sometimes will enter an agreement with an employee where there will be…

There are many laws that protect employees from employment discrimination. Examples of these laws include laws that prohibit employees from being discriminated against based on their race or their ethnicity or their gender. There are many other laws that the legislatures have created in recent years, such as discrimination based on sexual orientation or whistle…

Employment at will means that the employer does not need a reason, nor does the employee need a reason, to terminate the employment relationship. It can be terminable at any point in time with or without any reason. A cause provision, by contrast, requires there be a good reason for it: for example, poor performance,…

Due diligence is checking up on the details of a transaction. Typically, due diligence occurs when there’s a purchase of a business. The buyer of the business is, of course, wanting to find out are the representations of the seller accurate? They’re going to want to go look through the papers. They want to make…

Interference with contractual relations is a business tort, and it basically involves this, that there is a contractual relationship and somebody knows the contractual relationship exists, but they go ahead and try to get the person to break the contract for their own personal advantage.

To be discriminated against at work means that the employee is being protected by specific legal categories, such as the color of their skin or their ethnicity. When an employer violates employee’s rights to be free of discrimination, the employer is treating the employee worse because of this protected category, mainly the color of their…