HR Law

Non-Competes Are Costing You Talent. Change My Mind.

Let’s stop pretending this isn’t an uncomfortable question: are non-competes and restrictive employment contracts helping the media industry, or slowly strangling it? Depending on who you ask, they’re either essential protection for businesses investing in talent, draconian restraints that trap people in jobs they’ve already outgrown, standard practice “because that’s how it’s always been,” or […]

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New Lawyer. New CEO. New Timing. What Nexstar and TEGNA May Really Be Telling the Industry.

The local television industry just made several very strategic leadership moves, and the timing is difficult to ignore. First, Nexstar Media Group announced Elizabeth Ryder as Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary to the Board of Directors — notably, an executive deeply tied to major acquisition and regulatory strategy during Nexstar’s biggest expansion years.

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Mandatory Vaccinations as a Condition of Employment: Agree or Disagree?

We are living in interesting times within the media industry and beyond. And we are collectively feeling our way through a global pandemic in real time while dealing with a very fluid situation. The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) just announced they are moving ahead with their October convention in Las Vegas but will require

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I Signed a Non-Compete and Want to Leave My Current Job…Now What?

Remember day one with your exciting new job opportunity? Yeah, that job. The one where you applied online, jumped through several hoops/interviews in order to seal the deal to several strangers that you were the perfect match against their technical/behavioral job competencies, perhaps negotiated for your pittance, and perhaps passed pre-employment screening/background check/etc. And you

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