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... sheets, sales letters, and more! Communications Marketing Customer Service Planning Finance/Accounting Risk Management Human Resources Selling Legal and E&O Technology Life/Financial Services Glossaries Management Resources & Links Categories Popular Recent All Back Follow Smart Hiring Practices 4/30/2013 12:00:00 AM by CompleteMarkets Editor , Marcus Covas This content has not been rated yet. These hiring guidelines can help protect your business against the "growth industry" of employment-related litigation. Today, every business faces not only the traditional challenges of competition and rapidly changing technology, but a relatively new category of potential adversary — workers hitting them with employment-related claims. Not-for-profit corporations, public entities, and private businesses alike are experiencing an explosion of litigation alleging: Discrimination Sexual Harassment Wrongful discharge Wage and hour disputes Negligent hiring ... an outside agency to collect information. CONCLUSION Even with smart hiring practices, employers are still getting drawn into employment disputes and litigation. It's crucial to try to resolve a claim or dispute as quickly as possible. If there's no alternative to litigation, it's essential to get an attorney with experience in the specific employment dispute involved. Many insurers offer Employment Practices Liability (EPL) insurance, which provides indemnity protection. Most EPL policies also include a duty of the insurer to defend the insured. This is a valuable feature: Most insurers use law firms that have expertise in employment litigation. EPL insurers are likely to offer the most favorable rates to clients who implement best practices hiring policies. Marcus Covas is editor of riskVue, a free monthly online magazine from Warren, McVeigh & Griffin for risk ...

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... contractors or employees, as well as for the production agency they are associated with, to spell out everyone's rights and duties. In particular, the agreement should state whether it is terminable at will, what benefits the contractor/employee may expect, and how errors & omissions claims are to be handled. Anti-Piracy Agreements are important for owners of expirations, whether individual producers or production agencies, to protect trade secrets. Non-competition Agreements are also important in those cases where such agreements are legal, i.e., when an owner is selling his entire interest in the agency. Buy-sell Agreements or similar arrangements are needed to provide for the death or departure of an owner. Corporate documents such as minutes of incorporated agencies should be kept current, in order to preserve the corporation from attempts to pierce the ... 1986) 179 Cal.App.3d 124, 224 Cal.Rptr. 456, held that where the departing employee knew the customers names from dealing with them personally, the names were not trade secrets, and use of a rollodex to get addresses was not improper when the addresses were available elsewhere. This court stated that employees were not required to wipe clean the slate of their memories' On the other hand, American Credit Indemnity Company v. Sacks (1989) 213 Cal.App.3d 626, 262 Cal.Rptr. 92, held that where the names of customers for a specialty type of insurance were not generally known, use of the company's material to solicit the customers was improper. Loan expiration material was protected from use in soliciting customers in Greeley v. Cooper (1978) 77 Cal.App.3d 393, 143 Cal.Rptr. 514. In ...

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