United States: California Sunshine Warms The Market: A Twist On Customer Non-Solicitation Provisions In The Golden State

Those of you reading our Employee Mobility blog posts are familiar with California’s unique approach to non-compete agreements: they are, except in a few limited circumstances, unenforceable in the Golden State. And that unenforceability extends to post-employment non-solicitation provisions restricting individuals from soliciting business from former customers –a “warm market” to those in the know in the sales community.

But a recent decision highlights an exception to this (infamous) California ban on post-employment solicitation.

In Batts […]

By | January 26th, 2015 ||

United States: Mandatory Paid Sick Leave — What In-House Counsel And Employers Need to Know

As indicated in a recent blog post in the Harvard Business Review, entitled “Who Has Paid Sick Leave, Who Doesn’t, and What’s Changing,” paid sick leave traditionally was a benefit that only some employers provided, and in some cases only to certain employees. In recent years, however, increasing numbers of cities and states have begun mandating that employers provide this traditionally voluntary benefit. In fact, if President Obama makes good on his promise from […]

By | January 24th, 2015 ||

United States: New York Governor Again Calls For Higher Minimum Wage

As previously discussed here, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s prior efforts to accelerate an increase in the state’s minimum wage were tabled when the state legislature failed to take any action last summer. New York’s current minimum wage is $8.75/hour, and is scheduled to rise to $9.00/hour at the end of 2015. Governor Cuomo also had sought to grant municipalities the authority to raise wages even higher on their own, but this too was […]

By | January 24th, 2015 ||