Employment Agreements

When you leave a job—whether you quit, get laid off, or are fired—your employer owes you every dollar you earned. Yet according to Temple University’s Sheller Center for Social Justice (2024), $19 to $32 million in wages are stolen from Pennsylvania workers every single week. A significant portion of that theft happens when employers delay, reduce, or simply refuse to pay […]

When your employer classifies you as “exempt,” that single word determines whether you receive overtime pay—or work extra hours for free. According to the U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (2024), federal enforcement actions recovered $126,967,097 in overtime back wages for more than 101,000 workers in fiscal year 2024 alone. Many of those workers had been wrongly told they didn’t […]

This might be your first time entering into an executive employment agreement. Or maybe you have done this for each job you have had. You may not have given these agreements much thought. These agreements, however, are not form contracts. You have the ability to negotiate terms. And terms are more than just compensation. Shouldn’t you have someone advocating for you? Your company will. The attorney that drafted the agreement for your company likely went to a great law school and works at a large firm.