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Our Blog: Employment Contracts and Agreements

  • Jul 24 2018
  • Kristin Case
  • Blog, Employment Contracts and Agreements
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Arbitration

Arbitration Agreements & Class Action Waivers

Kristin Case July 24, 2018 Blog, Employment Contracts and Agreements 0

The recent arbitration decision could backfire on employers.

The Supreme Court really stuck it to employees in their recent Epic Systems decision.  We’ve written about arbitration provisions in general here and why they can be bad for employees.   As if giving up your right to a jury trial wasn’t bad enough, arbitration agreements also sometimes contain class action waivers.  Employers …

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  • Jun 8 2016
  • Kristin Case
  • Blog, Employment Contracts and Agreements, Non-Compete Agreements and Restrictive Covenants
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low-wage workers

Non-compete agreements hurt low wage earners

Kristin Case June 8, 2016 Blog, Employment Contracts and Agreements, Non-Compete Agreements and Restrictive Covenants 0

Employers take advantage of vulnerable employees by forcing them to sign unnecessary non-compete agreements

Time Magazine recently ran an article that discussed how non-compete agreements particularly hurt lower-wage earners.

Remember the 2014 controversy surrounding Jimmy John’s forcing their sandwich makers to sign non-compete agreements?  That ignited a discussion about the unequal balance of power between employees and employers and particularly …

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  • Mar 18 2015
  • Kate Sedey
  • Blog, Employee Pay and Compensation, Employment Contracts and Agreements, Unpaid Wages, Earned Bonuses and other Compensation
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wage gap

The Vanishing Earned Bonus: Part II (A Quick Update)

Kate Sedey March 18, 2015 Blog, Employee Pay and Compensation, Employment Contracts and Agreements, Unpaid Wages, Earned Bonuses and other Compensation 0

The Vanishing Earned Bonus: Part II

Just wanted to post a quick update to our ongoing blog series addressing the ways in which employers and courts have been eating away at earned bonuses by reliance on language providing employers with absolute discretion in awarding incentive compensation.

Yesterday, in McCleary v. Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, 2015 Ill. App. (1st) 141287-U (Ill. App. 1st Dist. …

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  • Feb 23 2015
  • Kate Sedey
  • Blog, Employee Pay and Compensation, Employment Contracts and Agreements, Executive Counseling, Unpaid Wages, Earned Bonuses and other Compensation
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wage gap

The Vanishing Earned Bonus: Part II

Kate Sedey February 23, 2015 Blog, Employee Pay and Compensation, Employment Contracts and Agreements, Executive Counseling, Unpaid Wages, Earned Bonuses and other Compensation 0

A number of years ago, we published a blog setting out several tools employers have used to deny employees what we believe are earned bonuses as well as some ideas about legal principles on which an employee might rely to get those bonuses back.  For that complete blog post, scroll to the bottom of this page.  Now more than five years later, …

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  • Feb 11 2010
  • Kate Sedey
  • Blog, Employee Pay and Compensation, Employment Contracts and Agreements, Executive Compensation, Unpaid Wages, Earned Bonuses and other Compensation
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wage gap

The Vanishing Earned Bonus

Kate Sedey February 11, 2010 Blog, Employee Pay and Compensation, Employment Contracts and Agreements, Executive Compensation, Unpaid Wages, Earned Bonuses and other Compensation 6

The Vanishing Earned Bonus [Part I] – And How to Get it Back!

Every year, around this time we start to get calls from employees who have not only lost their jobs but have also been denied their year-end bonus, which so many families depend on in budgeting their lives.  Employers use all kinds of tricks to withhold what employees rightly feel …

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