Shareholder & Employee Disputes
From the perspective of a business owner, nothing is more distracting, troubling, or threatening, than another owner that is not pulling their weight, making overtures of disloyalty, or employees that are harming those business relationships that you have worked so hard to build up. From the perspective of the highly paid employee, nothing is more aggravating, hurtful, and shameful than being told to quite or be fired for a reason you know in heart is not the "real" reason for your employer's turnabout.
At Daniels & Wymore, PLLC, we help clients with this trio of the most common workplace issues. Whether it is working out the separation of owners, counseling employers on the steps they can take to protect themselves from bad employees or ones that will meet every client then quit and compete, to helping employees right the injustice of a termination based on race, religion, disability, or other protected class. Our ability to help both business owners protect their dreams and employees their sense of justice actually helps our attorneys better counsel any particular client, because we can advise on the other side's strategy and goals.
Some of the recent shareholder disputes and employment cases that our attorneys have worked on include:
- Pursuing a former shareholder, officer, and director that agreed to sell their interest to the remaining owner and then actively competed against the company, took the major clients, and ultimately, destroyed the business for which our client had paid.
- Demanding and receiving remarkably better severance for a highly paid employee who was let go and thereby avoid costly litigation.
- Using a noncompete agreement to end a lawsuit brought by a former employee for unpaid commissions and in settlement, forcing the employee to pay our client to get out of the lawsuit the employee had brought.
- Advising client on the employer's concerns about an employee's believed substance abuse in a job that required sobriety for safety reasons.
- Using a nonsolicitation agreement to demand and force a former employee to stop interacting with employer's client and employees.