Yoshi Hires New Employees Plumbing & Pizza Delivery employees have been doing a fantastic job and are quickly gaining a great reputation in their community. As a result, Peach and Luigi are approached by Donkey Kong, a very wealthy restaurant owner that is...
How To Lose Your Small Business in 10 Days – Day 5 – Wilson McCoy P.A.
Luigi Writes a Non-Compete Yoshi’s newly hired employees (and independent contractors) have begun their training as either pizza cooks or plumbers. However, being such a unique business, Yoshi has taken the time to train each employee individually on how to perform...
How To Lose Your Small Business in 10 Days – Day 4
Peach and Luigi Misclassify the Newly Hired Employees Yoshi has begun working for Plumbing and Pizza Delivery under his new extremely advantageous contract that has basically assured him employment, no matter what happens. Excited to begin work, Yoshi puts an ad out...
How To Lose Your Small Business in 10 Days – Day 3
Peach and Luigi Hire New Employees Peach and Luigi quickly realize they cannot run the entire business on their own and are interested in hiring some additional help. But finding potential employees that understand the intricacies of plumbing and pizza dough tossing...
How To Lose Your Small Business in 10 Days – Days 1 and 2
Mario and Luigi’s New Business – Plumbing & Pizza Delivery As noted in our last blog, brothers Mario and Luigi agreed to open a business together. Mario wanted to open a plumbing business while Luigi wanted to open a pizza business. Eventually, the brothers...
November is Small Business Month
Small businesses matter. While they may not necessarily generate as much money or gain as much attention as large corporations, small businesses form the building blocks of our local economies and bring growth and innovation to our communities. They help stimulate...
Starting a New Business – Start with A Founders’ Agreement
Many of our clients’ businesses were started with friends or family members. While such businesses often succeed and are long lasting, there are those which encounter great difficulty because they failed to formally establish the terms of their relationships. To...
Eligibility for Unemployment Benefits – You Must Be Totally or Partially Unemployed
In a previous blog entry, we discussed the criteria that must be met in order to be eligible to receive unemployment benefits in general terms. Each element will now be discussed in more detail throughout several following articles. The first criterion was discussed...
Challenging an Adverse Action through the Public Employee Relations Commission
Public employees in Florida often have additional rights that private sector employees do not possess. This usually includes the ability to (1) pursue any applicable grievance or appeal steps provided by the public employer or under a collective bargaining agreement,...
I Believe I Have Been Discriminated Against – What Should I Do?
First and foremost, if you believe you are a victim of discrimination (whether on the basis of your age, race, color, religion, sex/gender (including sexual harassment), handicap or disability), you must report the discrimination to your supervisor or a member of...

