Employment Agreement

A provision in an employment agreement requiring an employee to assign inventions does not apply to an invention developed entirely on the employee's own time without the employer's equipment, supplies, facilities or…

No employer may require, as a condition of employment or continued employment, a provision made void by section 2870, but an employment contract may require confidential disclosure of all inventions the employee makes…

An employer may not require an employee who primarily resides and works in California, as a condition of employment, to agree to adjudicate California claims outside California or to give up California law's substantive…

It is an unlawful employment practice to require, in exchange for a raise or bonus or as a condition of employment, a release of FEHA claims or a nondisparagement or other agreement denying the right to disclose…

An employer may not require a release of a claim for wages due or to become due unless those wages have been paid;

Definitions for the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act, including the employees excluded (those under qualifying collective bargaining agreements, certain construction, in-home supportive service and air carrier…

An employee who works in California for the same employer 30 or more days in a year accrues paid sick days at no less than one hour per 30 hours worked (exempt employees deemed to work 40 hours a week), alternative…

Text of the Wage Theft Prevention Act notice: at hiring the employer gives a written notice, in the language it uses for employment matters, stating the rate and basis of pay, allowances, the regular payday, the…

Arbitration agreements text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Connecticut rule that each employer must, at hiring and annually after, give each employee written notice of the entitlement to family and medical leave and its terms, the opportunity to file a claim for compensation…

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Connecticut rule that a covered employer must, at the time of hiring, notify each employee of the entitlement to paid sick leave, the amount provided and the terms of use, the prohibition on retaliation, and the right…

Connecticut rule that if an employer policy or collective bargaining agreement provides for payment of accrued fringe benefits (such as paid vacation, holidays, sick days and earned leave) on termination, a terminated…

Connecticut paid sick leave accrual rule: covered employers provide paid sick leave accruing at one hour for each thirty hours worked, in one-hour increments up to forty hours a year, beginning on the phase-in dates or…

Connecticut final-pay rule: an employee who resigns is paid in full by the next regular pay day, a discharged employee is paid in full not later than the business day after discharge, and a laid-off employee or one…

Connecticut hiring-notice rule: each employer must advise employees in writing at the time of hiring of the rate of remuneration, hours of employment and wage payment schedule, and make available in writing or by posted…

Connecticut rule that an employee not paid as sections 31-71a to 31-71i or 31-76k require recovers in a civil action twice the full amount of the wages with costs and reasonable attorney's fees, or the full amount with…

Connecticut text on physician non-competes, which reaches any contract creating a professional relationship with a physician: a covenant is enforceable only if necessary to protect a legitimate business interest,…

Arbitration agreements and procedure text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Delaware rule that, except as the wage payment chapter itself provides, no provision of the chapter may be contravened or set aside by private agreement.

Delaware pay transparency section, which the publisher marks effective September 26, 2027: an employer that posts a job opportunity must include the hourly or salary compensation range and a general description of…

Delaware employment discrimination statute: it is unlawful for an employer to refuse to hire, discharge or discriminate in compensation, terms or conditions because of race, marital status, genetic information, color,…

Delaware rule that a provision in an employment agreement requiring the employee to assign or offer to assign rights in an invention does not apply to an invention developed entirely on the employee's own time without…

Contract execution and scope restrictions text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Delaware definitions for the wage payment and collection chapter, including "employ" (to suffer or permit to work), "employee" (excluding federal, state and local government employees and independent contractors as…

Delaware hiring-notice rule: every employer of more than three employees must notify each employee in writing at the time of hiring of the rate of pay and the day, hour and place of payment, give notice of any reduction…

Delaware rule that an employer who agrees to pay or provide benefits or wage supplements must pay the amounts needed to provide them within 30 days after they are required to be paid, with "benefits or wage supplements"…

Delaware rule that an employer must post notices and use other appropriate means to keep employees informed of their protections and obligations under the Whistleblowers' Protection Act.

District of Columbia final-pay rule: a discharged employee is paid earned wages not later than the next working day (four days where the employee handled the employer's money), a resigning employee by the next regular…

District of Columbia definitions for criminal record screening in hiring, including applicant, arrest, conditional offer (an offer conditional solely on the results of the employer's later criminal record inquiry or…

District of Columbia definitions for accrued sick and safe leave, including domestic violence, employee (with the volunteer, religious, casual babysitter and other exclusions the section lists), employer, family member…

District of Columbia accrual rule: employers with 100 or more employees provide at least one hour of paid leave per 37 hours worked up to 7 days a year, 25 to 99 employees one hour per 43 hours up to 5 days, 24 or fewer…

Arbitration agreements and procedure text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

District of Columbia text on the employer's record-keeping and notice duties under the minimum wage law: records of each employee's name, address, occupation, rate of pay, amounts paid and times worked kept for at least…

D.C. Wage Payment and Collection definitions, including "employer" and "employee" as any person suffered or permitted to work by an employer, and "wages".

District of Columbia text: except as the chapter provides, no provision of the Wage Payment and Collection chapter may be contravened or set aside by private agreement, and in enforcing it the pay an employer promised…

District of Columbia definitions for the Wage Transparency Act: compensation (all monetary and nonmonetary benefits), employee, employer (any employer with at least one District employee, excluding the District and…

Florida definitions for the private whistleblower act, including employer (a private employer with ten or more employees), employee (excluding independent contractors), law, rule, or regulation, retaliatory personnel…

Restrictive covenant scope text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Florida CHOICE Act text on covered garden leave agreements, stating their applicability, that they do not violate public policy as a restraint of trade, and the conditions the section lists.

Florida text allowing the court to award the prevailing party in an action for unpaid wages the costs of the action and a reasonable attorney's fee. Read it before drafting pay terms that could be disputed.

Florida text on employment eligibility verification, defining contractor, employee as an individual filling a permanent position under the employer's control, employer and the further terms, and going on to the…

Florida text barring an employer from retaliating against an employee for disclosing or threatening to disclose, under oath and in writing, to a government agency an employer violation of a law, rule, or regulation…

Florida text allowing an employee subjected to retaliatory personnel action in violation of the act to sue within 2 years after discovering it or 4 years after it was taken, whichever is earlier, in the listed venues,…

Florida text implementing the constitutional minimum wage: employers must pay the hourly minimum wage the section states for all hours worked, the Department of Commerce adjusts the rate each September 30 by the stated…

Florida CHOICE Act definitions, including covered employee (an employee or individual contractor meeting the earnings threshold stated), covered employer, covered garden leave agreement and covered noncompete agreement.

Arbitration agreements and procedure text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Maryland text requiring an employer to give each employee, at the time of hiring, written notice of the rate of pay, the regular paydays and leave benefits, plus a written pay statement each pay period with the…

Maryland definitions for earned sick and safe leave, including abuse, domestic violence, the covered employee (with the exclusions the section lists), employer, family member and the remaining terms.

Maryland text: an employer with 15 or more employees provides paid earned sick and safe leave at the employee's normal wage, an employer with 14 or fewer provides at least unpaid leave, with the headcount rules, accrual…

Maryland text on the permitted uses of earned sick and safe leave (the employee's or a family member's illness or preventive care, maternity or paternity leave, and absences related to domestic violence, sexual assault…

Maryland definitions for the criminal record screening subtitle: criminal record (arrests, guilty and nolo pleas, stet, probation before judgment, not criminally responsible) and employer (a person employing 15 or more…

Maryland text defining terms for the Wage Payment and Collection subtitle: "employer" includes any person who employs an individual in the State or a successor, and "wage" means all compensation due for employment,…

Maryland final-pay rule: all wages due for work before termination are paid on or before the day the employee would have been paid, and accrued leave need not be paid out only if the employer has a written policy…

Maryland text: if an employer fails to pay wages as required by § 3-502 or § 3-505 and 2 weeks have passed since payment was due, the employee may sue to recover them;

Maryland text making null and void, except as federal law prohibits, any provision in an employment contract, policy or agreement that waives a substantive or procedural right or remedy for a future claim of sexual…

Maryland text making noncompete and conflict-of-interest provisions unenforceable for employees earning 150% of the State minimum wage or less, certain licensed health-care employees earning $350,000 or less, and…

Massachusetts rule that no employee may be penalized in any way for seeking rights under the wage and hours provisions of chapter 149, and that an employer who discharges or discriminates against an employee for…

Massachusetts rule defining personnel records and, for employers of twenty or more employees, listing documents that must be included (such as job title, pay, application, evaluations, warnings, waivers signed by the…

Massachusetts rule that every employer must keep true and accurate records of each employee's name, address and occupation, the amount paid each pay period, and hours worked each day and week, keep them for at least…

Massachusetts rule that each employer must post a workplace notice of paid family and medical leave benefits and, within 30 days of an employee's start date, issue written information in the employee's primary language…

Massachusetts pay transparency section, effective October 29, 2025 under chapter 141 of the acts of 2024: a covered employer with 25 or more employees in the commonwealth must disclose the pay range in a posting,…

Independent contractor classification text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Noncompetition agreements text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Agreements requiring a signed writing text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Massachusetts Equal Pay Act: no employer may pay a wage rate lower than that paid to employees of a different gender for comparable work except for the listed seniority, merit, production, geographic, education and…

Required settlement notice text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Each employer must provide earned sick leave to each employee working in the State, accruing one hour for every 30 hours worked or front-loaded at the start of the benefit year, with no obligation to permit accrual, use…

Text of the New Jersey Arbitration Act: parties may generally waive or vary the act's requirements to the extent permitted by law, but before a controversy arises a party may not waive or vary sections 5a., 6a., 8,…

An employer may not make any agreement with an employee for payment of wages other than as the wage payment act provides, except to pay at shorter intervals or in advance;

A provision in an employment contract requiring the employee to assign or offer to assign invention rights does not apply to an invention developed entirely on the employee's own time without the employer's equipment,…

Text of the Opportunity to Compete Act's core rule: except as 34:6B-16 provides, an employer may not require an application that inquires about an applicant's criminal record, including an expunged record, or make any…

Text of the Law Against Discrimination's list of unlawful practices: subsection a.

Protected rights and nondisclosure restrictions text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Arbitration agreements and procedure text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Official Department of Labor template for the Labor Law § 195(1) pay notice to an employee paid a weekly rate or a salary for a fixed number of hours, 40 or fewer a week: employer information, the rate and the weekly…

Official Department of Labor template for the Labor Law § 195(1) pay notice to exempt employees: employer name, trade names, FEIN and addresses;

On request of a person denied employment who has a prior conviction, the employer must provide within thirty days a written statement of the reasons for the denial.

Arbitration agreements and procedure text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Contract writings, modification and scope restrictions text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

An employer may not access an employee's personal information about the employee's or a dependent's reproductive health decision making without prior informed written consent, may not discriminate or retaliate on that…

Official DOL guidance page: the Wage Theft Prevention Act requires written notice of wage rates to each new hire stating the rate and basis of pay, the regular payday, the employer's official name and DBA names, address…

Except where inconsistent with federal law, no written contract entered into on or after the section's effective date may contain a clause requiring, as a condition of enforcing the contract or obtaining remedies under…

Definitions for article 23-A: "private employer" means a person or entity employing ten or more persons, and the section defines "direct relationship", "license" and "employment". Read with § 752 and § 753.

Contract writings, modification and scope restrictions text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Arbitration agreements and procedure text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Ohio text allowing a civil action for an unlawful discriminatory employment practice under section 4112.02, but generally only after the person has filed a timely charge with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission and…

Ohio text barring an employer subject to section 4113.15 from exempting itself from that section's wage-payment timing rules by special contract with an employee or otherwise, and invalidating assignments of future…

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Consumer transaction scope text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Unfair consumer practices text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Ohio text requiring every employer, as defined in Section 34a of Article II of the Ohio Constitution, to pay each employee not less than the constitutional minimum wage as the director of commerce adjusts it annually,…

Ohio text requiring overtime at one and one-half times the employee's wage rate for hours over forty in a workweek, in the manner and subject to the exemptions of sections 7 and 13 of the Fair Labor Standards Act and…

Ohio text making an employer that pays less than the overtime wages due under section 4111.03 liable for the full overtime rate less amounts paid, plus costs and reasonable attorney's fees, providing that an agreement…

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

An employer that receives an applicant's criminal history record information may use it in deciding whether to hire only under this section;

Arbitration agreements text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Arbitration agreements and procedure text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Text of the Act of Nov. 26, 1978, P.L. 1212, No. 286: on request an employer must, at reasonable times, let a current employee (including one laid off with reemployment rights or on leave) or the employee's designated…

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Taking an article representing a trade secret by force, or willfully and maliciously entering a structure or accessing a computer system to obtain one, is a felony of the second degree;

Section 4 provides that a noncompete covenant entered into after the effective date of that subsection is deemed contrary to public policy and void and unenforceable by an employer, with an exception allowing…

Text of the whole act. Section 5(a) makes it an unlawful discriminatory practice for an employer, because of race, color, religious creed, ancestry, age, sex, national origin or non-job-related handicap or disability,…

Unfair trade practices and consumer protection law text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Texas text requiring an employer to pay a discharged employee in full not later than the sixth day after discharge, and an employee who leaves for another reason not later than the next regularly scheduled payday.

Covenants not to compete text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Texas text, added in 2025, making a covenant not to compete relating to the practice of dentistry, nursing, or practice as a physician assistant unenforceable against a licensed dentist, nurse, or physician assistant…

Texas text barring a contract from limiting the time to sue on it to a period shorter than two years and declaring a shorter contractual limitations period void, except for agreements relating to the sale or purchase of…

Arbitration agreements and procedure text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Arbitration agreements and procedure text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Contract attorney fees text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Texas text making it an unlawful employment practice for an employer, because of race, color, disability, religion, sex, national origin or age, to fail or refuse to hire, discharge or otherwise discriminate in…

Texas text defining the terms of the Payday Law, including employee as an individual employed for compensation other than certain relatives and independent contractors, employer, and the further terms including wages.

Texas text requiring an employer to designate paydays consistent with section 61.011, defaulting to the first and 15th of each month if none is designated, and to post notices of the paydays in conspicuous places in the…

Virginia text voiding, as against public policy, any nondisclosure, confidentiality or nondisparagement provision an employer requires as a condition of employment that has the purpose or effect of concealing the…

Virginia wage payment statute: employers must establish regular pay periods and rates of pay, pay salaried employees at least monthly and hourly employees at least every two weeks or twice a month, with the stated…

The court or jury may fix the date interest begins on any principal sum awarded, and the order must provide for interest until the principal is paid.

Virginia text: a person doing business in Virginia, or its agent or attorney, may not willfully and maliciously prevent or attempt to prevent a discharged employee or one who left voluntarily from obtaining employment…

Virginia text: an employer that violates the overtime requirements of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and related regulations and case law is liable to the employee for the remedies available in an action under §…

Arbitration agreements and procedure text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Virginia text: an employer may not discharge, discipline, threaten, discriminate against or penalize an employee, or retaliate as to compensation or terms of employment, because the employee in good faith reports a…

Restrictions on certain noncompetes text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

Trade secrets text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.