Does your new hire need an employment agreement, or can an offer letter suffice? If you worry about whether to present your new hire with an employment agreement, you are not alone. Employers ...

Arbitration agreements are considered contracts, and state law generally governs whether an enforceable contract exists, the 11th Circuit pointed out. Under Florida law, the party seeking enforcement ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. You recently established a business and have started extending employment offers. Your new hires will have to complete some paperwork, ...

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Louisiana noncompete agreements must comply with a statute—La. R.S. 23:921—to be enforceable. Does this statute also apply to employee nonsolicitation—or “anti-poaching”—agreements? A Louisiana ...

“Whatever position you might take on noncompetes as such, a troubling dimension of this debate is the use of the same broad brush to paint confidentiality agreements as threatening to employee ...

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