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It is always recommended that you have employees execute reasonable restrictive covenants (or non-compete agreements) and confidentiality agreements when you, as the employer, provide employees with confidential and proprietary business information and clients. However, just because your former employee does not have a restrictive covenant/non-compete agreement, does not mean that the employee can steal your clients and confidential information.

Since we spend most of our adult lives at work, sometimes people unfortunately get injured at their jobs. In New Jersey, if you are injured at work, the workers’ compensation courts allow the filing of two types of cases:

Unfortunately, this is a topic that has impacted many New Jersey residents over the past several years. Economists may argue about whether the recession is over, but unemployment in New Jersey remains stagnant at 9.1%, slightly above the national average of 9.1%.

If you have been improperly labeling your employees as independent contractors, then a new IRS program gives you the opportunity to reclassify those workers as employees at a relatively minor cost. With the introduction of the “Voluntary Classification Settlement Program (the “VCSP”), the IRS is providing this opportunity as a “last chance” for employers to come into compliance before it becomes more vigilant about proper classification in the future.