Last week, Ken Adams was kind enough to offer us an excellent contribution on the use of the “moral turpitude” clause in employment contracts. If you haven`t read it yet, take a minute to do so. Workers also receive legal protection when an employer does not provide them with the appropriate pension, health, severance pay or other benefits for other workers. The law protects workers who have lost their jobs because their employer felt that their benefits were too expensive. If you feel you are entitled to the work allowance, please contact us. The contract probably also says that it can only be amended in a letter signed by both parties. This is important because it could mean that all promises you receive from your employer after signing the agreement will not be binding unless they are recorded. This form of secondary agreement is increasingly common in some sectors, particularly in the financial, technology and pharmacy sectors. These agreements vary, but in general require the employee to treat confidential information about the employer confidentially.
You can also indicate that all inventions (or “intellectual property”) that you invent during your employment with the company, belong to the company, not to you. In particular, these agreements usually have the effect of ending your work with the company. In other words, these are promises that will last forever. So you should be very sure to understand what they are saying, and I think you will agree before you agree. Workers have a large number of contractual protections in the workplace that they may not be aware of. If you have a contract with which you need help or if you are unsure of your protection, contact the labour law specialists at Casper and Toledo. As the previous nine questions (hopefully) show, employment contracts are complicated, with almost unlimited combinations and permutations of concepts and almost as many potential pitfalls for the unwary worker. And just because everything is great now doesn`t mean you have to skip the conversation with a lawyer. (Finally, you probably wouldn`t accept this job if the working relationship wasn`t good at first.) And the editorial seems to ignore the positive attributes that an alternative dispute resolution can also bring to the employee. Arbitration also has a place in our “civil justice system.” (In a 2012 editorial, the Law Tribune called for the adoption of the uniform arbitration act.