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NORWOSSA Golf Season has come to an end with Lindy Leclerc from Dryden winning the Girls Individual competition and Jacob Lugli finished 2nd overall and winning the silver medal. The NWOSSA final are Tuesday October 2 at Kitchen Creek in Fort Frances.
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Would you be willing to publish in the newspaper the financial details of your company, the identity and special needs of your customers, the formulas for your products, the marketing studies you have done, the specialized training you have created, and your business plans for all your competitors to see?
Probably not. But if your competitors hire your former employee who has all that information about your business in his head or on a jump drive, similar damage can be done. Your business can also suffer if an employee starts her own business in competition with you using all that information.
Fortunately there are ways that you as an employer can protect your confidential business information and trade secrets when knowledgeable employees leave your company. You can require an employee not to interfere with your business by prohibiting his recruitment of your employees when he leaves. You can also restrict a key employee from competing against your business by having him sign a covenant not to compete.
Trade secrets such as custom technology, formulas, and business plans that are sufficiently valuable, difficult or expensive to develop, give you a competitive advantage, and are kept confidential within the company are protected under Texas law from being revealed by employees or former employees. You are not required to get a copyright, trademark or patent on these valuable ideas and documents that make your company competitive.
However, in order for the courts to protect your trade secrets, you must make some effort to keep them secret. One of the best way to do that is to place a policy in your employment handbook that defines what kind of information in your company is confidential and require that it be kept secret by employees during their employment and afterwards. Then be careful that this information is not used in your advertising, marketing materials, or customer presentations.
If you take these precautions to keep your secrets secret and an employee uses them in a manner that is damaging to your business, you can seek an injunction to stop her, you can sue for misappropriation of trade secrets and in some cases, even file criminal charges.
Don’t get the idea, however, that your former employees cannot use the general knowledge, skills and experience they have gained working for you when they go to work for your competitor. Texas protects the right of the employee to make a living doing what they know how to do best, even if it is for a competitor, as long as the employee is not using your trade secrets to compete.
Texas law does allow an employee to give up that right of freely using his skills in the open market if he is given a sufficient incentive to sign a carefully-drafted written agreement not to compete with his employer.
Noncompetition agreements are tricky and you should never use one that has not been carefully scrutinized by your employment attorney. I have seen so many agreements that an employer has “borrowed” from another company or downloaded from the Internet. None of these is enforceable in Texas and so not worth the paper they are printed on.
Even Texas employment lawyers can’t give you a guarantee that the agreements they write will hold up in court because this is a very volatile area of Texas law and one appellate court opinion can completely change the enforceability of these agreements. But you have a better chance of getting an enforceable agreement from a Texas lawyer than from the web.
Texas law is very particular in the area of noncompetition agreements. For example, Texas law requires that the employer give the employee valuable consideration for giving up his right to compete, such as unique and valuable training or the right to keep his job unless he is fired for good cause. Just putting the employee to work as an at-will employee is not enough.
The noncompetition agreement must also be limited in time and geographical restrictions. It would be unusual for a Texas judge to enforce a covenant not to compete that requires the employee to sit out of the game for more than 2-3 years or stay out of a sales territory where you don’t do significant business anyway.
The agreement must also be “ancillary to an otherwise enforceable agreement”. This is a murky concept, but you should be okay if you agree to provide your employee specialized training and additional job security, such as a contract to terminate him only for “good cause”, thereby giving up your employment-at-will rights.
Clearly the written covenant not to compete requires the employer to sacrifice to get the employee to give up the right to compete. Therefore, this kind of agreement is recommended only for key employees who are instrumental in making you competitive and have access to vital company information.
For the rest of your employees, your trade secrets and business goodwill will be well protected if you will:
· Retain valuable employees by offering good benefits and other incentives for them to remain loyal to you;
· Educate your employees about their duty to protect your trade secrets both during and after employment; and,
When the new Americans with Disability Act (“ADA”) amendments go into effect on January 1, 2009, millions more disabled Americans (or those perceived as disabled) are expected to be protected by the law than have been helped since the 1991 law was enacted. Click here for more information about these amendments. This of course means that your odds as an employer of being sued for disability discrimination will increase.
As a business owner or manager, if you aren’t completely comfortable about how to apply the ADA in your workplace, now is the time to prepare before the January 1 deadline. There are many ways to prepare, including training all of your supervisors on working with and accommodating disabled employees and developing internal procedures for dealing with requests for accommodation. You should review the company interviewing procedures to assure yourself that no one is asking about an applicant’s prior worker’s compensation history or other loaded questions. You should also be certain that medical exams are being given to all persons to whom you offer jobs (or to none), so that it is clear you are not trying to weed out disabled applicants.
One important preparation that you should undertake today and complete by the end of 2008 is a review of all of your job descriptions. I can hear every manager reading that last sentence expel a heavy sigh. I know that writing job descriptions is a pain, but it is the single most important piece of evidence during a disability discrimination case.
Each job description should include a specific list of the “essential functions” of that job, meaning the fundamental duties of the job. Be careful to separate out the essential duties from the marginal ones. For example, overnight travel may be required infrequently of a clerical person, but may be essential to a company sales representative. Therefore, the ability to travel should not be listed as an essential function in the job description for the clerical position.
Listing the physical requirements of every job is absolutely essential in a good job description. It is a mistake to assume that a white-collar job description doesn’t need a physical duties section. My job as a lawyer doesn’t seem that physical, but what about the physical ability to communicate? Talking and hearing well is essential because I must communicate clearly to be able to advise my clients. Lawyering can be sedentary, as it is right now as I write this blog entry, but it can also be very strenuous, as during a long trial in federal court, where I am required to stand during any witness examination or statement.
There are also many mental and emotional functions of a job that should be listed since the ADA protects mentally impaired workers equally with physically impaired workers. For example, in some companies, the ability to interact effectively with others, to work under pressure, to multi-task and follow-through, to manage time and to be organized is essential to most of the jobs. If that is the case, these qualifications should be listed in the job description.
Don’t panic when you think about revising (or creating for the first time) your job descriptions. There are many sources for examples, such as job description software, your trade association or even your competitors in your industry. Have the employee currently holding a job update his/her own description with the duties that employee actually performs. Then add the physical and mental requirements, as well as some boilerplate warning the employee of the fact the job description can change at any time.
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A man waves a Greek flag during an anti-government rally outside the Greek parliament building in Athens, Greece, June 20, 2017. Reuters/File Photo
The new deal that Greece has signed with European Union does not hold enough debt relief to keep the crisis-hit country out of trouble for a long term, the Jubilee USA network has observed.
Parts of the deal provide more breathing space for a short term, its executive director Eric LeCompte said in a statement recently.
Under the deal, Greece will have to maintain austerity policies and economic reforms, meaning that it will hurt too many people in the European country.
Eric LeCompte, who monitors and works on international debt deals, added that the continued austerity policies hurt too many Greeks and will negatively impact economic growth as well.
While the International Monetary Fund's Christine LaGarde supports the deal, she has also raised concerns about the deal's ability to achieve sustainability for the Greek economy, the statement cited.
The Jubilee USA Network is an alliance of more than 75 US organizations and 650 faith communities working with 50 Jubilee global partners.
That's a real nice deal and a nice headlamp. I have one as well (different brand though) and overall a nice light. For $7 it's a steal! Thanks for sharing it with us, Mr Talk!
Might end up putting a bit of the diffusion tape on the front to make it more of a flood beam for up close work
LOL! I went and ordered one just now as well. This is exactly like another light I already have and did a full review of. For $7 it's worth getting another one if only for spare parts. I would link to my review of it but flickr has hosed all my photos to it and all images are broken. I have a ticket open with them to resolve the issue. Once fixed I'll post the review link but it is here on TFF if you still want to search for it.
Did the pics in the review work for you? Flickr techs tell me it's my machine's browser cache that is doing it.
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