READY-MADE legal TOOLS + TEMPLATES TO COMPLY WITH THE LAW AND RUN YOUR RESTAURANT LIKE A DREAM.
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you want to fire your waitress, but you just found out she's pregnant.
Terminating employees who have protected status can be dicey. Here's what you need to know.
in: discrimination, discipline
minors can't use meat grinders + other things to remember when hiring summer help.
It seems like everyone’s holding open interviews this week. With summer fast upon us, the restaurant industry will create an average of 500,000 seasonal jobs. But before you staff up with a shiny new temporary workforce, here are some important legal tips to keep in mind:
in: child labor, age discrimination
is your sexy restaurant aesthetic subjecting your employees to sexual harassment?
Check out the video for what you need to know in the era of #metoo.
in: #metoo, sexual harassment
MY STATE HAS LEGALIZED MARIJUANA. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR MY RESTAURANT'S DRUG POLICY?
VIDEO BLOG!!
IN: DRUGS
sex, alcohol + where lines are blurred: understanding hostile work environment sexual harassment
In theory, sexual harassment is an easy concept to understand. Most people get the gist of the law – that you can’t harass a person because of their sex. But one of the reasons that sexual harassment continues to be so prevalent (aside, of course, from the fear of reporting or the straight-up disregard for the law), is that many employers can’t see it for what it is. The truth is that sexual harassment is rarely going to appear in your restaurant the way it’s portrayed in the weird anti-harassment videos from the 80s.
IN: #METOO, DISCIPLINE
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I'm Lexi.I create legal tools and templates to help restaurant owners become expert-enough at legally hiring, managing, and paying their staff.
I used to be a litigator; suit, courtroom, the whole thing. I also used to think that I was helping employers by defending them in lawsuits filed by former employees with an axe to grind. One day I wised-up and realized what a colossal waste of time and money litigation actually is. (And that I loathed terms like “whereas” and “aforementioned,” but that’s another story for another time). So I left that gig and started this – an endeavor to actually (gasp!) prevent employee lawsuits in the first place. In my experience, you don’t know what you don’t know until you’re sued for it. Most employers don’t intentionally try to break the law. Frankly, they just flat out don’t know what the law is. So I create tools and resources to remedy exactly that – to tell restaurant owners what they need to know to avoid ending up in the clink. Ok not really; you probably won’t go to jail for breaking employment laws. But you could be on the hook for millions of dollars for so much as tipping your servers wrong. |
I also have a law practice where I give clients in four states legal advice tailored to their specific issues. This is not that. This is the basics; the quick and dirty “know this” based on my experience of why restaurant owners get sued.
So here's the disclaimer (lawyers love disclaimers, after all): All products are informational only. They're not a substitute for hiring your own lawyer in your own jurisdiction. And buying anything from this website does not make me your lawyer either. That takes way more paperwork and something resembling a blood oath to keep your darkest secrets. In other words, you would know if I were.
Got it? Ok! Now saddle up, I have some things to teach you.
So here's the disclaimer (lawyers love disclaimers, after all): All products are informational only. They're not a substitute for hiring your own lawyer in your own jurisdiction. And buying anything from this website does not make me your lawyer either. That takes way more paperwork and something resembling a blood oath to keep your darkest secrets. In other words, you would know if I were.
Got it? Ok! Now saddle up, I have some things to teach you.