Across industries such as professional services, technology, healthcare, and construction, business leaders must diligently navigate a complex landscape of legal obligations. Ensuring compliance is crucial to avoiding significant liabilities, fines, reputational harm, or even forced closure. A business compliance checklist is a structured tool that helps small and midsize businesses […]
Every small business should have a written contract, whether it is with its customers, vendors, or suppliers. While every business is different, and this may apply to some industries more than others, it is important for small businesses to evaluate when or how a dispute could arise and whether they […]
This article addresses tips and considerations for employers who are considering whether they should codify employment policies into an employee handbook which may be interpreted or evaluated under Florida law (or “employee manual,” as they are sometimes called). To make that determination, an employer should ask a few key questions […]
Any employer, large or small, may run the risk of dealing with disgruntled ex-employees. One common problem employers face is negative and false reviews about their businesses left by former employees on Glassdoor or similar platforms. The biggest problem for most employers is that these false reviews tend to be […]
Recently, the FCC’s long-awaited Reassigned Numbers Database (commonly referred to as the “RND”) went live for use. The significance of the RND is that it offers companies the ability to query whether a telephone number was permanently disconnected after the date the consumer provided consent for calls or text messages. […]
On November 5, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) published 29 C.F.R. 1910, commonly referred to as the “vaccine mandate” and referred to by OSHA as the “ETS on Vaccination and Testing,” which requires private employers with over 100 employees to mandate employees either get vaccinated or undergo […]
If an employee resigns and starts working for a competing company, the former employer’s trade secrets may be at risk of being disclosed. Whether the former employee kept those trade secrets in their mind, e-mailed them to a personal email, or physically walked out of the office with them in […]
When a tenant contracts for improvements to leased property, the property could be subject to construction liens. This can be particularly problematic for property owners when a tenant does not pay their contractor for those improvements. However, Florida law provides property owners with certain protections from these types of construction […]
On November 5, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) published 29 C.F.R. 1910, commonly referred to as the “vaccine mandate” and referred to by OSHA as the “ETS on Vaccination and Testing,” which requires private employers with over 100 employees to either mandate employees get vaccinated or undergo […]
In a recent decision, the Florida Supreme Court officially adopted and codified the apex doctrine in the context of corporations for lawsuits in Florida, effective August 26, 2021. See In re: Amendment to Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.280, No. SC21-929 (Fla. 2021). This important decision offers a key additional […]