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What is the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, and what private companies are covered? Which employees are entitled to emergency FMLA, and what must employers provide? Can employees of non-essential businesses refuse to go to work?

Trembly Law Firm and the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce hosted a webinar on understanding contractual obligations during the Coronavirus Pandemic (enforcing contracts, defending against enforcement actions, or negotiating deals to avoid enforcement actions). Firm Partner, Arturo Arca, provides crucial information business owners and landlords should know during the coronavirus Pandemic.

What options do business owners have due to coronavirus? Trembly Law on CBS4 Miami 00:00 April for now. Well, it’s an understatement to say most employees and the companies they work for large and small are on edge. 00:06 Tonight some business owners are trying anyway possible to make it through this unprecedented situation. CBS

Knowing the difference when it comes to employees vs. independent contractors can affect finances for your business, and Human Resource policies. The main benefit of using a contractor is that the business can avoid paying employment tax. We have seen, however, that this condition does not apply to all circumstances. The IRS and employees can file suit on the grounds of discrimination.

Miami business lawyer Brett Trembly explains that, in certain circumstances, verbal agreements can be legally binding.

Many of our clients have heard the term “read the fine print”. It refers to understanding all the terms of a written contract and having the means to negotiate on any clause. The business may ask if a verbal agreement is legally binding, however, compared to written agreements.

How to use an ownership vesting schedule to align interests Business owners often will ask me how they can give five or 10% of their company to a very loyal employee. And the problem is once you sign the paperwork, if you give away 10%, or any percentage of your company, that employee doesn’t have

My partner never works, so I want his part of the business! I get this question a lot one business owners frustrated with another business owner for not working hard enough or sometimes not working at all? Well, the bad news is unless you have something in writing, specifically stating that the business owners have

How to get screwed with licensing language You have to be very careful about what’s in a contract and what the contract is titled. For example, I had a client that came to see me one time because he had been what he thought buying a business for about 10 years. But it turns out

Why being an incorporator on sunbiz doesn’t give you ownership rights Just because you’re listed on a document as an incorporator, or on Sunbiz and Florida as an incorporator, that doesn’t give you any ownership rights, you can be listed as president, vice president, secretary treasurer, those are officer positions in a company. It doesn’t

If you’re sued individually such as I got served against Brett Trembly then, yes, I could represent myself, you can represent yourself. I don’t recommend it, but it’s possible. But what isn’t possible is when you own a corporation or an LLC and that business entity is sued.