Workforce Bulletin

As featured in #WorkforceWednesday:  This week, we bring you our special Spilling Secrets podcast series on the future of non-compete and trade secrets law:

Human capital often drives the value of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in the health care industry. Buyers involved in these deals must retain key employees to secure that value.

Epstein Becker Green’s Spilling Secrets hosts Erik W. Weibust and Katherine G. Rigby join forces with the Diagnosing Health Care podcast hosts Daniel L. Fahey and Timothy J. Murphy to talk about strategies to retain these employees.

Once again seemingly appropriate work rules have been under attack by the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”). In a recent decision (Component Bar Products, Inc. and James R. Stout, Case 14-CA-145064), two members of a three-member NLRB panel upheld an August 7, 2015 decision by an Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) finding that an employer violated the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA” or the “Act”) by maintaining overly broad handbook rules and terminating an employee who was engaged in “protected, concerted activity” when he called another ...

Prosecutions of employees taking proprietary software with them when they leave financial services firms is on an upswing.

Our colleagues Peter Altieri and James Flynn at Epstein Becker Green address this in their post “Leave the Source Code Behind,” on the Trade Secrets & Noncompete Blog.

Following is an excerpt:

U.S. Attorneys in many jurisdictions are more willingly stepping into the fray between financial services firms and their former employees who have misappropriated trade secret information. In a recently reported case out of the Northern District of Illinois, two ...

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Please join us on Tuesday, December 16, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. EST as we review developments in 2014 and what employers should expect and prepare for in 2015.

During this one hour webinar, we will discuss:

• Recent decisions regarding what constitutes adequate consideration for a non-compete
• The trend toward criminal prosecution of trade secret theft, especially in the international context
• Interesting decisions determining choice-of-law issues
• New and pending state and federal legislation

This webinar is hosted by Epstein Becker Green ...