Employment Agreements

🎤 Upcoming Event: Star Treatment, Solid Contracts: Navigating the VIP Employment Landscape

April 28, 2025 | by Eric B. Meyer

Working with VIPs can feel like walking a legal tightrope. From influencers to high-profile executives, businesses often face big questions: Are they independent contractors or employees? What must go into their agreements? And how do you protect your intellectual property—and avoid legal headaches?

On May 9 at 12 PM ET, I’ll be teaming up with my colleague, Merlyne Jean-Louis, for a free Zoom session you won’t want to miss: Continue reading

Court to employers: Don’t wait too long to arbitrate employments claims

April 1, 2024 | by Eric B. Meyer

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A recent federal appellate court decision is an important reminder to confirm early—not later—whether the employee suing your business signed an arbitration agreement. Continue reading

Thinking about a mutual non-disparagement provision in a separation agreement? Read this!

October 5, 2023 | by Eric B. Meyer

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I’ve drafted plenty of employee separation agreements. Continue reading

Join us on Friday, 12/16/22 at Noon ET for The Employer Handbook Zoom Happy Hour: “The ESSENTIAL Employment Law Updates for 2023″

December 12, 2022 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Are you ready for the employment law changes that 2023 has in store for your company?

If you’ve been thinking about updating your employee handbook and onboarding documents but don’t know where to begin (or end), we’ve got you, fam.

Join me and my employment law partners, Christina Bost Seaton, Amy Epstein Gluck, and Sid Steinberg, on Friday, December 16, 2022, at Noon ET for The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Hour: “The ESSENTIAL Employment Law Updates for 2023.”

We’re back! Today, at Noon ET, it’s The Employer Handbook Zoom Happy Hour: “Offboarding the C-Suite.”

September 30, 2022 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Remember when we used to hang out on Friday afternoons on Zoom and talk about employment law? It wasn’t as dorky as it sounds.

Yes, it’s still ok in NJ to have a non-disparagement provision when settling discrimination claims.

June 14, 2022 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Back in March 2019, the State of New Jersey passed a law that makes any non-disclosure provisions in an employment contract or settlement agreement that have the purpose or effect of concealing the details relating to a claim of discrimination, retaliation, or harassment unenforceable against a current or former employee who is a party to the contract or settlement. I wrote about it here. Continue reading

This one goes out to all you New Jersey arbitration nerds.

February 16, 2022 | by Eric B. Meyer

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If, like me, you’ve always wondered whether the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) preempts a 2019 amendment to New Jersey’s Law Against Discrimination (LAD) that prohibits the waiver of procedural and substantive rights under the LAD, try to remain calm. I’m about to blow the lid off this jawn.

(The rest of you can bug out and play Wordle.) Continue reading

Can a company require new employees not to bash it on Glassdoor? Is that legal?

November 18, 2019 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Let’s find out. Continue reading

A new bill in Congress will end forced arbitration of employment claims. But, will it pass?

May 17, 2019 | by Eric B. Meyer

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In a statement issued earlier this week, House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) announced that he would “not rest” until Congress passed “historic legislation to end forced arbitration.”

I have a feeling Mr. Nadler is going to be pretty tired. But, let’s see what this is all about. Continue reading

The Supreme Court just buried class-action arbitration of employment claims*

April 25, 2019 | by Eric B. Meyer

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In 2010, the Supreme Court held in Stolt-Nielsen SA v. AnimalFeeds International that a court may not compel class-action arbitration when an arbitration agreement is silent on the availability of such arbitration.

Last year, in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, the Supreme Court issued another employer-friendly decision on arbitration when it concluded that the National Labor Relations Act does not usurp an agreement between a company and its worker to arbitrate employment-related claims on an individual, non-class basis.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court finished walking dry the mudhole that it had stomped on employee class-actions in arbitration, ~~right before delivering stunners to everyone.~~ Continue reading