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Best Practices For California Employers
Top Ten Stupidest Things California Employers Could Say
By Anthony Zaller on
Your company may be in trouble if you (or the president/owner you work for) have had one of the following thoughts:
1. My company is too small to be sued in a wage and hour class action.
2. I’m too busy to think about employment law issues – I’ll get to it next week.
3. …
Employers Must Market To Fill Jobs
By Anthony Zaller on
Posted in Best Practices For California Employers
Seth Godin points out the 90/10 rule for marketing a job. He notes that if employers do what every other employer is doing to fill a job, they will only hire sub-par employees.
Most hiring managers don’t understand organizations that go to extraordinary lengths to find and retain amazing people. And from their point
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Noncompetition Agreements In California Are Narrowly Construed
In Edwards v. Arthur Andersen LLP (link to PDF), the California Supreme Court ruled on the following issues: (1) To what extent does Business and Professions Code section 16600 prohibit employee noncompetition agreements; and (2) is a contract provision requiring an employee to release “any and all” claims unlawful because it encompasses nonwaivable statutory protections…