Ogletree Deakins Podcasts
Workplace Strategies Watercooler 2023: Multistate Monday—Updating Your Multistate Handbooks and Employment Agreements
This episode of Multistate Monday, which was recorded at Ogletree Deakins’ national Workplace Strategies seminar, features a discussion of how multistate employers can craft, revise, and implement handbooks in the face of emerging federal, state, and local developments. Our attorneys, Shareholder Dee Anna Hays, chair of Ogletree Deakins’ Multistate Advice and Counseling Practice Group, Shareholder Lucas Asper, Shareholder Christine Bestor Townsend, cochair of the firm’s Unfair Competition and Trade Secrets Practice Group, were joined by a guest speaker who is a senior human resources professional for a growing multistate employer. The panelists address key considerations in structuring multistate employment handbooks, the uptick in state limitations on restrictive covenants, and best practices related to the timing and consideration for such agreements.