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By Kevin A. Fritz

Seyfarth Synopsis: A former employee’s social media activities were not “solicitations” that breached his employment non-solicitation agreement where no suggestion to join the former employee was apparent from the activity.

Employers often wonder how far a non-solicitation agreement can go. It can frustrate employers, who may pay extra money for an employee to sign a…
Continue Reading To Connect Or Not To Connect, That Is The Non-Solicitation Agreement Question

By Erin Dougherty Foley and Craig B. Simonsen

In an opinion last week, the Second Circuit ruled that a company’s human resources (HR) director could be held individually liable for Family and Medical Leave Act violations.

The Court said that the HR director had enough control over an employee’s job and enough input into her firing to qualify her as…
Continue Reading Second Circuit Court Holds HR Director is Individually the “Employer”