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Protect Your Business from Corporate Raiding by Key Employees By Randall Sutton Trust in your key employees is critical to business success. In a closely held business, an employee’s disloyalty can bring even the most successful business to the brink of bankruptcy. Over the years, I have handled many “corporate raiding” cases, where a highly …
NLRB Rules that Cussing Out Employer May be OK by David Briggs Have you ever had an employee just lose his cool and lay into you with a profanity-laced tirade? Many employers who have had that pleasure have fired the insubordinate employees on the spot. In one of its most recent decisions, the National Labor …
Con-Tech, Inc. and Salem-Keizer Public Schools broke ground on a new house to be built by McKay High School and South Salem High School students. The house is located at 519 24th St. NE in Salem. The project is part of a construction technology program between Salem-Keizer Public Schools’ career-technical education department and Con-Tech Inc., a private non-profit organization dedicated to …
Just as the temperatures really heated up this summer, so did new developments in Employment Law. With new Supreme Court cases, executive orders, local ordinances, and agency guidance, a lot happened this summer. Here is an overview from the summer of 2014 – Saalfeld Griggs Employment Law Update Summer 2014
Please join us at the annual Habitat for Humanity HopeBuilder Breakfast to be held Tuesday, October 7, 2014, from 8 am to 9 am at the Salem Convention Center (200 Commercial St. SE). Enjoy fellowship and a catered breakfast while learning about all Habitat has accomplished in our community. All money raised during the event …
IRS Bans Pre-Tax Reimbursement of Individual Health Insurance Premiums Due to skyrocketing cost of group health insurance, many employers have opted to drop group coverage altogether and instead reimburse their employees for all or part of their individual health insurance premiums on a pre-tax basis. Under these arrangements, the employee did not pick up the …
By Jennifer Paul Late summer means harvest time, but it also can mean unwanted visits from the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”). In 2012, the DOL found several Marion County farms in violation of wage and other labor violations. Rather than simply initiating legal action against the farms for penalties and back wages, the DOL …
By Estate Planning Practice Group “I want to make things simple for my family.” This is one of the goals I hear most frequently when a person begins the estate planning process. Implementing the correct legal documents is critical in achieving this goal, and the legal documents tend to receive the most attention. But the …
By Alan Sorem During the 19th and early 20th centuries, miners would carry caged canaries with them into the mines. The canary’s rapid breathing, small size, and high metabolism would cause the bird to suffer the effects of methane, carbon monoxide, and other harmful gasses before those gasses affected the miners. If a canary was …
Helping Fiduciaries Sleep Well at Night By Christine Moehl Managing a company’s retirement plan is a challenging job, too often delegated to one or two employees within the company who may have neither the time nor the skills for the task. These employees are considered “plan fiduciaries” under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”). …