While retaliation claims in employment matters were initially just tacked onto underlying discrimination claims, they are often the more challenging claims to overcome. The Society for Human Resource Management reported that 2010 marked the first year […]
Texas is an employment at-will state. Therefore, you would think that terminating an employee in Texas should be an easy proposition. After all, you can terminate an employee for any reason, or no reason, as long as you are not doing so for an improper […]
When a company files bankruptcy, trade creditors are frequently left in financially vulnerable positions. Trade creditors are generally unsecured, and frequently receive only pennies on the dollar from bankrupt debtors' estates. We are frequently […]
It's every employer’s nightmare. Your star salesperson has left the company and started working for a competitor. It gets worse; your IT department confirms that the sales person took the company's confidential information with them. Employers […]
Creditors face any number of perils when an account debtor files for bankruptcy – loss of sales, likely risk of collection of amounts owed, legal fees and more. One more challenge a creditor might encounter is a possibility the now-bankrupt debtor […]
The difficult economic circumstances of the last few years have affected employer/employee relationships in a number of different ways. One of these effects has been that fewer employees changed jobs. During a period of high unemployment, […]