Co-authored by Karen S. Elliott Imagine you are the owner of a business with about 50 employees.  Your product is well-known and there are limited suppliers in the United States.  Your best salesman generates about 50% of your company’s gross sales – or about $100 million a year.  He is on salary plus commission under [...]

I work with business owners and executives.  We are watching the unfolding story of Capt. Owen Honors, a decorated  Naval officer who was just relieved of his command of the prestigious  U.S.S. Enterprise aircraft carrier.

A new revision to Massachusetts’ Personnel Records Law requires employers to notify an employee within 10 days of the employer placing in the employee’s personnel record any negative information.

As far as I can tell, it is human nature to gripe.

Thanks to John Vandenhoff here is the first in a series of articles on the tax implications of the new health care law. There’s also more in a series of informational podcasts on the Web site of the Law Firm Alliance, of which we are a member. John Vandenhoff On Mar. 30, 2010, President Obama [...]

I recently advised an employee who wanted to start setting up a potentially competing new business before leaving his current job. There were some provisions of his employment contract that applied to the situation. I told him what the letter of the agreement said, and how I thought his employer would interpret it.