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Labor and Employment Law: You’ve Hired Employees: Now What?

Austin labor and employment law can get complicated, so employers cannot be too careful.

Even if you have built a values-driven company and you want to do right by everyone associated with your business, you can never fully anticipate what might go wrong. As the saying goes, one bad apple can spoil the bunch. A problematic employee or supervisor can create a cascade of problems that can drag your company into painful, lengthy litigation. The team here at the Posey Law Firm can help you identify potential risks, minimize them, and, if need be, fight for you in any labor and employment law related litigation.

Reducing your risk is crucial. But perhaps even more important than litigation risk assessment/reduction is good human resources planning. The policies that you create, and the values that you instill in your employees can have a profound effect on your growth potential. You want to get “A” players on your team; at the same time, you need to prevent the wrong people from getting inside your organization and lowering morale and causing other problems.

The best human resources policies are based on tested processes—systems that work automatically to help you achieve your vision of a happy workplace, highly motivated employees, and functioning feedback mechanisms. Call our Austin office at (512) 646-0828 today. Our team can help you develop and institute these systems and procedures, so your HR department is a well-oiled machine.

Representation for companies in a variety of employment law areas

Our team can provide legal help with respect to employment discrimination, sexual harassment, age discrimination, and other employment law problems. We have deep understanding of and facility with laws such as:

Americans with Disabilities Act
Fair Labor Standards Act
Family and Medical Leave Act
Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act

We can also help you if you are dealing with non-compete problems, loyalty issues, trade secret violations, and allegations of discrimination and harassment of any type.

Powerful litigation help to defend your company’s good name

No matter how well you and your HR department work to create a wonderful environment and anticipate problems, nothing in business is certain. If an employee complains to a Texas agency or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Posey Law Firm can come to your aid and defend you and your team against the accusations. We can also help if an employee has filed a lawsuit against your company, alleging things like discrimination, harassment, contract breach, unfair termination, or other claim.

Help with violations of confidentiality, privacy, and non-competition agreements

Part of your competitive advantage stems from your specialized in-house procedures, systems, knowledge, and talents. If a former employee pirates these assets or shares them with a competitor, your company can be damaged, perhaps irreparably so. The Posey Law Firm can help you draft the most effective non-competition, confidentiality, and anti-piracy agreements and enforce those agreements to the maximum that the law allows. Our team has experience representing companies in complex litigation involving Texas non-competition agreements, and we can use a variety of strategies to get you damage, including injunctive relief.

Protection for your critical business secrets

The innovations and systems that you develop can give you the sustained market advantage you need to win—and keep winning. In some cases, you may want to use patent protection; in other cases, you may want to use specific trade secret innovation protection. Our legal team can help you identify the most appropriate strategies. We can help you invent the most appropriate systems and strategies to shield your best kept secrets and punish any violations.