In the spirit of Labor Day, I thought both employees and business owners in Wisconsin should know about a recent decision on restrictive covenants from the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. The case is important for you or your business because it affects whether certain employer-employee agreements are actually enforceable.
Many Wisconsin employer-employee relationships are governed
I’ve never really gotten on the Zombie movie and TV show bandwagon. I think it’s because they’re just so far-fetched, that it’s difficult for me to buy into the premise. When it comes to the reality of the Zombie Property Apocalypse though, it’s a completely different story. You may have read or heard about “Zombie
It’s incredible how much time we spend online. I recently read an article that the average person has close to 100 online accounts; whether it be social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, other applications like Gmail and Amazon, online bank accounts, and yes, even the Pokemon Go app. Generally, posts, emails and other
A long awaited Federal Law on trade secret misappropriation was signed into effect last month. The new law, titled the Federal Defend Trade Secrets Act, or “DTSA”, creates a Federal cause of action for businesses who own trade secrets against individuals who have misappropriated the business’ confidential information. The law creates a uniform definition of
A Federal Appeals Court ruled earlier this month that an S-Corporation’s rental income from a lea![irs[1]](https://www.wisconsinbusinesslawblog.com/files/2016/02/irs1.jpg)
se agreement with a C-Corporation with entirely common ownership with the S-Corp, could not be classified as passive activity income, and therefore could not offset the individual’s passive activity losses.
Internal Revenue Code section 469 was passed in the
Employers, you may soon be required to dish out more overtime pay to your employees. On June 30, 2015, the Department of Labor released their plan to “modernize” the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime pay rules for salaried employees. Currently, employers are only required to pay time-and-one-half to “white-collar” salaried employees that make $23,660 or
Amid this summer’s flurry of U.S. Supreme Court rulings, the nation’s highest Court has essentially decided the fate of Obamacare. In King v. Burwell, the Court saved the health care reform law by rejecting a challenge that would have essentially dismantled the Affordable Care Act as we know it. After this ruling, the fate
It’s too bad the United States Supreme Court didn’t issue its ruling in Comptroller v. Wynne in time for the 2014 tax season. In early May 2015, the nation’s highest Court ruled in favor of a couple in Maryland who argued that part of Maryland’s state tax regime was unconstitutional because it failed to give
We learned this morning about another data breach, this time relating to the widely used Cloud Service called Dropbox.
Steve Kovach, of BusinessInsider.com reported yesterday that over 7 million Dropbox passwords have been compromised.
After the Target, Home Depot and other recent breaches, this isn’t a big surprise. However, since many lawyers use dropbox
The Wisconsin legislature had originally reacted to Obamacare by deciding to shift the burden of providing health coverage for government dependent people to those plans that would become available on the exchanges, with many of these people qualifying for subsidies. Unfortunately, with the poor roll out of Obamacare, many people do not know what is