What, if anything, can an employer do about the employee who leaves the company, taking his or her ideas along? Inventions belong to the inventor (that’s your employee, not you) unless there’s an agreement to the contrary. If the employee created the invention on company time and using company resources, then the company may have […]
Tag Archives: employment law
Check Those Employee Handbooks!
January 31, 2013
Internet Law
There have been a spate of reporting about the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) recent decisions about the use of social media by employees. You may think that an employer should have absolute control over its employees’ right to talk about the employer or its customers on the Internet, but that is not the case. […]
Ask Dr. Copyright….
July 28, 2011
Ask Dr. Copyright, Copyright
Dear Doc: We have a small business, and recently, one of our key employees quit unexpectedly. Of course, we quickly secured things, but a customer just called to say that she has been contacted by the fellow, and that his company’s brochure is quite similar to ours, offering the same services and products. We did […]