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Pick Your Headache:
Non-Competes, Marijuana, or
Interoffice Romances
October 22, 2019: Andrew Pearce & Lauren Black
PAGE
TODAY’S AGENDA
• Don’t Hire a Lawsuit – the “Employee
Acknowledgment” Letter
• If You Are Going to Fight, Fight Early
• Do Your Due Diligence
• Marijuana Policies
• Interoffice Romance Policies
Don’t Hire a Lawsuit:
The “Employee Acknowledgment” Letter
PAGE
The “Employee Acknowledgment” Letter
PAGE
The “Employee Acknowledgment” Letter
PAGE
The “Employee Acknowledgment” Letter
Applicable
to all new
employees
Tailored to a
new
employee’s
prior
agreements
PAGE
The “Employee Acknowledgment” Letter
PAGE
Advantages
• Avoids or mitigates potential claims by a prior employer
for tortious interference with the new employee’s post-
employment obligations to his/her prior employer
• Provides a basis to terminate the new employee if he/she
does not abide by the terms of the Employee
Acknowledgment
• Gives direction to both the new employee and his/her
supervisor(s) regarding the scope of (and possible
restrictions on) the new employee’s job duties and
responsibilities
If You Are Going to Fight, Fight Early
PAGE
A Good Offense is better than a Good Defense
PAGE
Advantages
• Provides a much faster and far less expensive means of
seeking guidance from a court at or near the time of hiring a
new employee if/when an old employer wants to threaten
litigation, including the possibility of injunctive relief
• Avoids the likelihood of protracted – and very expensive –
electronic discovery efforts and also limits potential damages
• Creates an opportunity to recover attorneys’ fees under §15.51
of the Texas Business and Commerce Code (Procedures and
Remedies in Actions to Enforce Covenants Not to Compete)
PAGE
Texas Business and Commerce Code § 15.51
Procedures and Remedies in Actions to
Enforce Covenants Not to Compete:
If the primary purpose of the agreement to which the covenant is ancillary is to
obligate the promisor to render personal services, the promisor establishes that
the promisee knew at the time of the execution of the agreement that the
covenant did not contain limitations as to time, geographical area, and scope of
activity to be restrained that were reasonable and the limitations imposed a
greater restraint than necessary to protect the goodwill or other business interest
of the promisee, and the promisee sought to enforce the covenant to a
greater extent than was necessary to protect the goodwill or other
business interest of the promisee, the court may award the promisor the
costs, including reasonable attorney's fees, actually and reasonably
incurred by the promisor in defending the action to enforce the covenant.
Do Your Due Diligence
PAGE
When hiring a new employee, consider:
• Including a contractual right to review and remove company
information from an employee’s personal devices at the time of
his/her separation from the company
• Expressly addressing ownership of customer contact
information stored in an employee’s outlook or phone contacts
• Adding post-employment contractual obligations that are not
subject to § 15.50, such as:
– A contractual obligation to return company property
(regardless of whether such information is confidential), or
– A severance agreement containing a non-compete
PAGE
Employee Severance Agreement with General
Release of Claims and Covenant not to Compete
PAGE
Employee Severance Agreement with General
Release of Claims and Covenant not to Compete
Marijuana Policies:
Weeding Out the Issues
PAGE 18
State Scoreboard
Source: https://www.governing.com/gov-data/safety-justice/state-
marijuana-laws-map-medical-recreational.html (as of 6/25/19)
PAGE
The Patient:
A physician may prescribe low-THC cannabis to a patient if:
• the patient is a permanent resident of the state; and
• the physician certifies to the department that:
– the patient is diagnosed with:
• epilepsy;
• a seizure disorder;
• multiple sclerosis;
• spasticity;
• amyotrophic lateral sclerosis;
• autism;
• terminal cancer; or
• an incurable neurodegenerative disease; and
– the physician determines the risk of the medical use of low-THC cannabis by the
patient is reasonable in light of the potential benefit for the patient.
19
What about Texas? The Compassionate Use Act
The Compassionate
Use Act was amended
in 2019 to add these
conditions
PAGE
The Physician:
A physician is qualified to prescribe low-THC cannabis with respect to a patient's particular
medical condition if the physician:
• is board certified in a medical specialty relevant to the treatment of the patient's
particular medical condition; and
• dedicates a significant portion of clinical practice to the evaluation and treatment of the
patient's particular medical condition.
However, the Compassionate Use Act does not contain any employment protection
for qualified patients that would restrict an employer’s ability to discipline or
terminate an employee who tests positive for marijuana.
20
What about Texas? The Compassionate Use Act
PAGE
Does an employer have to allow for the use of medicinal
marijuana to comply with the reasonable accommodation
requirements of the ADA?
• Most people who have a prescription for medical marijuana
have a disability that is protected under the ADA.
– Cancer;
– Glaucoma;
– HIV;
– Hepatitis C;
– Crohn’s disease;
– Alzheimer's.
21
Reasonable Accommodation under the ADA?
PAGE
The ADA does not require that an employer accommodate by
allowing use of medicinal marijuana.
• Courts that have directly addressed whether the ADA itself
requires permission to use medical marijuana as a reasonable
accommodation have all found that the ADA does not mandate
that employer allow for the use of an illegal substance as a
reasonable accommodation for a disability.
• Because even medicinal marijuana is an illegal substance under
the Controlled Substances Act, accommodation is not required
under the ADA.
22
Reasonable Accommodation under the ADA?
PAGE
If it is not a required accommodation under the ADA, what do
state disability discrimination laws say?
• 33 states and the District of Columbia have medicinal
marijuana statutes;
• Most state statutes regarding medicinal marijuana do not
address whether allowing medicinal marijuana use must be
considered as a reasonable accommodation;
• Because most state disability discrimination and
accommodation statutes are modeled after the ADA, most state
statutes do not require accommodation for medicinal
marijuana;
• Some of the statutes provide protections to medicinal marijuana
card holders and protections from adverse employment action.
23
What About the States?
PAGE
• If you have an employee with a medicinal marijuana
prescription, the employer likely does not have to
accommodate by allowing for use of medicinal marijuana.
• But, the employer should be careful before terminating or
taking adverse action because state statutes may provide
protections.
• Likely that even more change is ahead with medical marijuana
becoming more socially acceptable.
24
What are the takeaways?
Interoffice Romance Policies
PAGE
PAGE
For better or worse, the Employees are
affirmatively agreeing that:
PAGE
For better or worse, the Employees are
affirmatively agreeing that:
PAGE
Questions?
Answer: It depends.
Andrew Pearce
apearce@boyarmiller.com
832.615.4263
Lauren Black
lblack@boyarmiller.com
832.615.4295
BoyarMiller
713.850.7766
boyarmiller.com

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Acc oct 22 2019 presentation

  • 1. Pick Your Headache: Non-Competes, Marijuana, or Interoffice Romances October 22, 2019: Andrew Pearce & Lauren Black
  • 2. PAGE TODAY’S AGENDA • Don’t Hire a Lawsuit – the “Employee Acknowledgment” Letter • If You Are Going to Fight, Fight Early • Do Your Due Diligence • Marijuana Policies • Interoffice Romance Policies
  • 3. Don’t Hire a Lawsuit: The “Employee Acknowledgment” Letter
  • 6. PAGE The “Employee Acknowledgment” Letter Applicable to all new employees Tailored to a new employee’s prior agreements
  • 8. PAGE Advantages • Avoids or mitigates potential claims by a prior employer for tortious interference with the new employee’s post- employment obligations to his/her prior employer • Provides a basis to terminate the new employee if he/she does not abide by the terms of the Employee Acknowledgment • Gives direction to both the new employee and his/her supervisor(s) regarding the scope of (and possible restrictions on) the new employee’s job duties and responsibilities
  • 9. If You Are Going to Fight, Fight Early
  • 10. PAGE A Good Offense is better than a Good Defense
  • 11. PAGE Advantages • Provides a much faster and far less expensive means of seeking guidance from a court at or near the time of hiring a new employee if/when an old employer wants to threaten litigation, including the possibility of injunctive relief • Avoids the likelihood of protracted – and very expensive – electronic discovery efforts and also limits potential damages • Creates an opportunity to recover attorneys’ fees under §15.51 of the Texas Business and Commerce Code (Procedures and Remedies in Actions to Enforce Covenants Not to Compete)
  • 12. PAGE Texas Business and Commerce Code § 15.51 Procedures and Remedies in Actions to Enforce Covenants Not to Compete: If the primary purpose of the agreement to which the covenant is ancillary is to obligate the promisor to render personal services, the promisor establishes that the promisee knew at the time of the execution of the agreement that the covenant did not contain limitations as to time, geographical area, and scope of activity to be restrained that were reasonable and the limitations imposed a greater restraint than necessary to protect the goodwill or other business interest of the promisee, and the promisee sought to enforce the covenant to a greater extent than was necessary to protect the goodwill or other business interest of the promisee, the court may award the promisor the costs, including reasonable attorney's fees, actually and reasonably incurred by the promisor in defending the action to enforce the covenant.
  • 13. Do Your Due Diligence
  • 14. PAGE When hiring a new employee, consider: • Including a contractual right to review and remove company information from an employee’s personal devices at the time of his/her separation from the company • Expressly addressing ownership of customer contact information stored in an employee’s outlook or phone contacts • Adding post-employment contractual obligations that are not subject to § 15.50, such as: – A contractual obligation to return company property (regardless of whether such information is confidential), or – A severance agreement containing a non-compete
  • 15. PAGE Employee Severance Agreement with General Release of Claims and Covenant not to Compete
  • 16. PAGE Employee Severance Agreement with General Release of Claims and Covenant not to Compete
  • 18. PAGE 18 State Scoreboard Source: https://www.governing.com/gov-data/safety-justice/state- marijuana-laws-map-medical-recreational.html (as of 6/25/19)
  • 19. PAGE The Patient: A physician may prescribe low-THC cannabis to a patient if: • the patient is a permanent resident of the state; and • the physician certifies to the department that: – the patient is diagnosed with: • epilepsy; • a seizure disorder; • multiple sclerosis; • spasticity; • amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; • autism; • terminal cancer; or • an incurable neurodegenerative disease; and – the physician determines the risk of the medical use of low-THC cannabis by the patient is reasonable in light of the potential benefit for the patient. 19 What about Texas? The Compassionate Use Act The Compassionate Use Act was amended in 2019 to add these conditions
  • 20. PAGE The Physician: A physician is qualified to prescribe low-THC cannabis with respect to a patient's particular medical condition if the physician: • is board certified in a medical specialty relevant to the treatment of the patient's particular medical condition; and • dedicates a significant portion of clinical practice to the evaluation and treatment of the patient's particular medical condition. However, the Compassionate Use Act does not contain any employment protection for qualified patients that would restrict an employer’s ability to discipline or terminate an employee who tests positive for marijuana. 20 What about Texas? The Compassionate Use Act
  • 21. PAGE Does an employer have to allow for the use of medicinal marijuana to comply with the reasonable accommodation requirements of the ADA? • Most people who have a prescription for medical marijuana have a disability that is protected under the ADA. – Cancer; – Glaucoma; – HIV; – Hepatitis C; – Crohn’s disease; – Alzheimer's. 21 Reasonable Accommodation under the ADA?
  • 22. PAGE The ADA does not require that an employer accommodate by allowing use of medicinal marijuana. • Courts that have directly addressed whether the ADA itself requires permission to use medical marijuana as a reasonable accommodation have all found that the ADA does not mandate that employer allow for the use of an illegal substance as a reasonable accommodation for a disability. • Because even medicinal marijuana is an illegal substance under the Controlled Substances Act, accommodation is not required under the ADA. 22 Reasonable Accommodation under the ADA?
  • 23. PAGE If it is not a required accommodation under the ADA, what do state disability discrimination laws say? • 33 states and the District of Columbia have medicinal marijuana statutes; • Most state statutes regarding medicinal marijuana do not address whether allowing medicinal marijuana use must be considered as a reasonable accommodation; • Because most state disability discrimination and accommodation statutes are modeled after the ADA, most state statutes do not require accommodation for medicinal marijuana; • Some of the statutes provide protections to medicinal marijuana card holders and protections from adverse employment action. 23 What About the States?
  • 24. PAGE • If you have an employee with a medicinal marijuana prescription, the employer likely does not have to accommodate by allowing for use of medicinal marijuana. • But, the employer should be careful before terminating or taking adverse action because state statutes may provide protections. • Likely that even more change is ahead with medical marijuana becoming more socially acceptable. 24 What are the takeaways?
  • 26. PAGE
  • 27. PAGE For better or worse, the Employees are affirmatively agreeing that:
  • 28. PAGE For better or worse, the Employees are affirmatively agreeing that:
  • 29. PAGE Questions? Answer: It depends. Andrew Pearce apearce@boyarmiller.com 832.615.4263 Lauren Black lblack@boyarmiller.com 832.615.4295 BoyarMiller 713.850.7766 boyarmiller.com