Recently, the Florida Legislature passed the Florida Contracts Honoring Opportunity, Investment, Confidentiality, and Economic Growth Act (the “CHOICE Act” or the “Act”), which significantly expands employers’ ability to enforce covered noncompete agreements and clarifies employers’ ability to enforce “garden leave” agreements with “covered employees,” so long as certain requirements are…
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As we explained in a previous update, which you can access here, on April 23, 2024, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced its final rule governing the minimum salary required for employees to qualify for certain exemptions from the overtime pay obligations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) (the…
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As we discussed here, in April of this year, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) adopted a final rule (the “Rule”) that would have, among other things, created a near total ban on any new non-competition agreements between employers and employees and would have rendered most existing non-competition agreements unenforceable upon…
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Two Attorneys Listed as “Lawyer of the Year” Twelve Attorneys Listed as Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® August 15, 2024 – TAMPA, FL – Trenam Law is pleased to announce that sixty-three of its attorneys have been listed in The Best Lawyers in America© 2025. Additionally, two attorneys from Trenam have…
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Three Attorneys Listed in Top Categories June 24, 2024 - TAMPA, FL – Trenam Law is pleased to announce that a total of forty-five attorneys were recognized in the 2024 edition of Florida Super Lawyers comprised of the Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists. Three attorneys were recognized in the…
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Since 2019, numerous state legislatures and municipalities have enacted forms of CROWN Act legislation. CROWN is an anti-discrimination principle that stands for “Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair,” and variations of the CROWN Act have been introduced to prohibit discrimination based on hairstyles or hair textures historically…
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You may not think that you can be liable for the treatment of the employee(s) of another company, but under certain circumstances, you could be. Companies may not realize that, legally, they may be deemed to be the employer of individuals who are formally employed by another entity. That concept…
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Under federal law, employers are required to complete a Form I-9 for every employee as part of the verification of the employee’s authorization to work in the United States. Historically, this meant employers were required to verify an employee’s eligibility by physically inspecting the employee’s authorization documents, while the employee…
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On August 2, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) issued its decision in Stericycle, Inc., in which the NLRB adopted a stricter legal standard for evaluating the lawfulness of workplace rules and policies under the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”). Although many employers may think of the NLRA as…
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Fifty-One Attorneys from Trenam Law Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2024 Four Attorneys Listed as “Lawyer of the Year Eleven Lawyer List as “Ones to Watch” August 17, 2023 – TAMPA, FL – Trenam Law is pleased to announce that fifty-one of its attorneys have been listed in The…
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