Employment Contracts Attorneys in Long Island, NY

Drafting and Negotiating Employment Contracts

The dedicated employment contracts lawyers at Ricotta & Marks, P.C. regularly assist employees with drafting and negotiating employment contracts. Some of the issues and agreements we can assist you with include but are not limited to:

• Non-competition agreements (or non-compete agreements): Non-compete agreements are designed to protect an employer’s business interests in limiting an employee’s ability to conduct certain types of business for a particular amount of time in a specific region after that employee leaves the job. As the New York State Attorney General’s Office explains, non-compete agreements are only enforceable when they are necessary to protect the employer’s interests when they do not impose an undue hardship on the employee, when they do not harm the public, and when they are reasonable in both time and geographic scope.
• Non-solicitation agreements: Non-solicitation agreements exist between employers and workers to protect an employer’s business interests by preventing the worker from leaving the job and soliciting business from the employer’s current or former clients. Like non-compete agreements, non-solicitation agreements are only enforceable if certain elements are met.
• Non-disclosure agreements, or NDAs: Non-disclosure agreements are designed to prevent an employee from leaving the job and taking trade secrets or other information from the business to a new job or a new employer. In New York, non-disclosure agreements are generally enforceable unless they pertain to issues of unlawful discrimination or retaliation in the workplace.
• Severance agreements: Employees and employers can enter into an agreement about how a worker will be paid or compensated in the event of a layoff, termination, or decision to leave the job.