Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home

I constantly hear comments like, "I know my employer is only legally allowed to give out my dates of employment and job title." Th...

Just about every single severance agreement I've ever seen in 36 years of law practice have two standard clauses: the former employee ca...

 Lots of folks (like me) saw the Saturday Night Live sketch about the Try Guys and said, "Huh?" I had no idea they were a thing....

I see offer letters that make a specific job offer and then say, by the way, this isn't a contract. Guess what? Offer plus acceptance eq...

Frances McDormand made an impassioned plea during her Oscar speech for more diversity. She mentioned the term, "inclusion rider" a...

All the craziness and turnover at the White House has many Americans wondering what anyone joining the Administration is thinking. But I se...

If you're in high school or college, odds are you're looking for a summer job or internship . Maybe you're even working during ...

A reader asks this question in the comments to my post Non-Compete Agreements - Top 5 Ways To Get Out of Yours In 2012 my husband started ...

Chris Kluwe is a punter for the NFL. He used to play for the Minnesota Vikings. That is, until he started speaking up in favor of marriage e...

When I wrote the piece about Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson and his suspension for making racist and anti-gay comments in an interview...

You may know that your employer can legally spy on you at work (and outside of work) in several ways. But how do you actually know if you...

School’s out for summer! Or it will be soon, and many teens will start summer jobs or even their very first real job. Yet schools do little...

Employees, for the most part, believe everything their employer tells them. Most of the time, your employer's interests and yours coinci...

I'm constantly surprised by the number of employees who come to me after having signed things their employer shoved in front of them, re...

This continues my series of posts deconstructing the legal gobbeldy-goop in employment agreements. Today I'll talk about a clause I ofte...

This will continue my series of posts about deconstructing the legalese in employment contracts. This week I'll discuss some language I ...

In yet another attempt to explain the legalese that lurks in your employment contracts, today I'll talk about some of the language you m...

This will continue my attempt to explain some of the legal mumbo jumbo in your employment contract, and why the lawyers put it there. Today,...

I negotiate and review a whole lot of contracts. I've been doing it so long that I forget some of this stuff looks like gibberish to nor...

It’s summer, and thoughts of vacation are in the air. You shouldn’t have to worry about your job while you’re on vacation. Or should you? A ...