business law

The written assignments will present you with a scenario that has legal implications and ask you to identify the legal issues involved and make recommendations as to how to best handle the situation. The written assignments may be turned in at any time between the time the unit begins and the deadline for that unit. Read the scenario below and answer the questions that follow. Submit your answers in the form of a Word or PDF file.

Instructions

Pied Piper is a startup software company in California. Richard Hendricks is Pied Pipers CEO, and is an agent of the corporation. One day, Richard and his friend, Erlich Bachman, who is not an agent of Pied Piper, are at a restaurant where they meet Duncan, the CEO of Sliceline, a pizza delivery app. Hendricks jokingly introduces Bachman as Pied Pipers chief operating officer. Duncan doesnt realize that Hendricks was joking, and while Hendricks is in the restroom, Bachman and Duncan make a deal for Pied Piper to acquire Sliceline and all of its employees. Hendricks is very unhappy that Erlich would do this, but then he realizes that Pied Piper really does need to hire some new software developers, so he decides to honor Erlichs agreement for Pied Piper to buy Sliceline. Once the Sliceline employees have become Pied Piper employees, some of them become disgruntled with their working conditions. Hendricks pushes the programmers hard. They consistently work 80-hour weeks and he tells them they shouldnt complain because he pays them all an annual salary of $150,000. Theyre also a little creeped out because he obviously monitors their Pied Piper email accounts, as he will sometimes mention things in meetings that he could only know by reading their private emails. The disgruntled employees decide to band together and form a union. The employees begin to negotiate the terms of a collective bargaining agreement with Hendricks, but he isnt giving them what they want. To protest, the employees all agree to strike between the hours of 10am and 2pm every workday. In response, Hendricks fires all of the striking employees.

Questions:
Is the agreement for Pied Piper to acquire Sliceline enforceable? Why or why not?
Is Pied Piper violating any of its employees legal rights? Why or why not?
Do the fired employees have a claim against Pied Piper for wrongful termination? Why or why not?