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Hartzell & Whiteman has considerable experience providing advice
and representation to clients concerning written agreements relating
to their employment. In general, these agreements are of three types:
We
often represent employees whose employers have breached their
written employment agreements. In the majority of cases, the employer
has refused to honor the compensation or severance benefits provided
in the agreement. Many times, the employer has contrived a claim
of performance deficiency in order to provide “cause”
for the employee’s termination which, under the terms of
most employment agreements, results in less-generous severance
benefits
We frequently
advise employees who have been terminated or informed that their
job has been eliminated. In such cases, the employer often presents
the employee with a complex severance agreement that must be accepted
or rejected within a short period of time. In such cases, we recognize
that the review of severance agreements is an urgent matter to
the employee. Therefore, we customarily obtain a copy of the proposed
severance agreement by fax and review it with the client in the
days following. The advice that we offer is an explanation of
the benefits provided in the proposed severance agreement and
the rights that the employee is surrendering in exchange for those
benefits.
It is commonplace for employers to require their employees to
sign non-competition agreements. We advise employees who are presented
with this sort of contract concerning the validity and scope of
these agreements. We also review existing agreements and advise
employees who are considering a change of employment whether their
proposed new employment would be prohibited under the terms of
the non-competition agreement.
The law forbids your employer from making decisions concerning
your employment on the basis of race, gender, age, national origin
or religion. We receive dozens of phone calls every month from
employees complaining of “discrimination.” In our
experience, however, meritorious discrimination claims are rare,
so we do not represent employees making claims of discrimination.
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