Your Employees Aren't What You Think They Are.
The California employment rules that catch sports owners off guard
The people a sports organization employs are simultaneously its greatest asset and its largest source of legal exposure. These are not exotic problems; they are the ordinary, expensive mistakes organizations make because they treated employment as paperwork rather than the high-stakes legal relationship it is. California employment law is protective, specific, and unforgiving of assumptions imported from other states.
“Your coaches are employees. Your non-compete is void.”
Brandon Leopoldus, Esq.
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What's Inside
39 Pages. 7 Sections. Plain Language.
- 01The at-will default, and the contracts that change it
- 02The coaching and executive contract and its distinctive terms
- 03The buyout and liquidated-damages problem
- 04Worker classification: why coaches usually cannot be independent contractors
- 05Non-competes are void in California. Here is what to use instead.
- 06For-cause termination and morality clauses that actually work
- 07The wage-and-hour and anti-discrimination framework for the whole workforce
This playbook is educational. It is general information, not legal, tax, or investment advice for your specific situation, and reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship with Leopoldus Law, APC.