admin on February 1st, 2010

Here’s an interesting link giving advice to employers for crafting severance agreements. Was worth a look to consider the many ways that employers attempt to circumvent the law. For employees it may make sense to sign one of these if you are well compensated for it. A company is willing to pay you to eliminate [...]

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admin on January 1st, 2010

According to the following, a new bill has been introduced in Congress that would ban mandatory arbitration clauses in employment agreements. I don’t know if it’s likely to pass, but it would definitely be a good step toward ameliorating employer abuses and increasing corporate transparency.
http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/arbitration-fairness-act-would-ban-mandatory-arbitration-for-employees-130936.php

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admin on September 30th, 2009

Welcome to the Software Developers Guild. We are a non-profit organization dedicated to helping software developers maximize their employment potential. Let’s face it. Software developers are generally–eh, what’s the word?–unsophisticated about business matters. Employers are well aware of this. Bad combination.
We’re here to help change that. We’ll provide simple advice about industry practices, give you [...]

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