Tennessee Questions and Answers

Money with held because of loss of client
I was a contract employee, doing web development and design for an employer. I had been working for the company a little less than 3 months. My employer had handed me projects that were months behind ...
1 answer  |  asked Jun 6, 2007 6:19 PM [EST]  |  applies to Tennessee

lawyer abuse
First, the offending firm is not a TN firm! What do you do when the abusers are lawyers? What is the possibility of law firms making under the table "deals" with EEOC?
1 answer  |  asked Apr 19, 2007 3:33 PM [EST]  |  applies to Tennessee

sold business & wife went to work at another shop
my wife & i sold a florist & signed a no compete then she went to work for a shop across town & the new owners are up set the no compete says we cant conduct a retail florist establishment, 10 years &...
1 answer  |  asked Jan 1, 2007 10:00 PM [EST]  |  applies to Tennessee

clocking out for lunch
I work for a corp, (LLC)that has several branches in several states. The headquarters, or corp. offices are in TN. There are only 2 employees in each office. We work M-S, alternating weekends and 1 da...
1 answer  |  asked Jan 8, 2006 9:39 PM [EST]  |  applies to Tennessee

job elimination notice
My husband received a Power Point presention with a new company structure(without names). He was told to apply for a new position without pay information. He has a 1 year no-compete for 1 year's salar...
1 answer  |  asked Dec 18, 2005 12:10 AM [EST]  |  applies to Tennessee

Billable time & required time in the office?
My boyfriend recently took a job doing ITS, website management, and website design work. He was told he would be paid $10 an hour for the ITS/website managment stuff and $20 and hour for any of the de...
1 answer  |  asked Dec 17, 2005 11:17 AM [EST]  |  applies to Tennessee

Asked to work while off the clock
I work for a relatively new company who requires it's employees to do their own "marketing" or advertising. This is done thru handing out materials and flyers to area businesses and placing flyers on ...
1 answer  |  asked Jun 24, 2005 7:07 PM [EST]  |  applies to Tennessee

Is it Non compete if do same job but not competing? Also company sold to new company.
I work as a MSDS author for a company that authors MSDS for many companys. I signed an agreement with my company (Comany X) that says I will not compete against them or there best interest. If I went ...
1 answer  |  asked Jan 18, 2005 1:22 PM [EST]  |  applies to Tennessee

terminated- elimination for position, cover up for disability?
Husband was terminated due to job being eliminated, however a posting went up the day after with similar job responsibilities, just a different job title. He belives he was actually fired because of h...
1 answer  |  asked Jan 14, 2005 1:11 PM [EST]  |  applies to Tennessee

Shift work.
I perform computer help desk support for a large airline catering company in Memphis. I am an exempt employee (No overtime). My regular work hours were Monday -Friday 8:30am to 5pm (7.5 hours). My sup...
1 answer  |  asked Aug 17, 2004 5:23 PM [EST]  |  applies to Tennessee