August 2009

I recently wrote about the importance of documenting employee performance deficiencies.  I also tried to outline several items to consider including in that performance documentation.  You can read my post here.

This week, two fellow blawggers posted additional examples about why documenting employee performance problems is essential.  Jay Shepherd at Gruntled Employees provides a…

Employees frequently stay connected with work through company issued smart phones.  Smart phones, like the iPhone, Blackberry, and Treo, allow employees to have access to their work e-mails, calenders and contacts –in addition to making and receiving calls.  In my practice, a smart phone is incredibly useful in staying in touch with my client’s needs when I’m in…

Employees occasionally sue Texas employers for breach of contract claiming the employer violated its handbook policies in taking some action against the employee.  Texas law precludes most breach of contract claims premised on violations of an employee handbook where the handbook contains a provision expressly disclaiming any intent to create binding or contractual rights –whether express or implied.  

John Hyman at the Ohio Employer’s…

In addition to containing reasonable restrictions as to time, geographic scope and scope of activity to be restrained, Texas imposes additional requirements for enforceable covenants not to compete with licensed physicians.  Those additional requirements include that the covenant: 

  1. not deny the physician access to a list of his patients whom he had seen or treated

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