It may seem like eons ago that your employer asked you to sign a non-compete agreement. It may have been when you were first hired, or perhaps it was a few years later when you…
Asking your employees to sign a non-compete contract is an excellent way to protect your trade secrets, confidential business information, and established relationships with your clients, but in order to be enforceable, they must be…
Non-compete contracts are documents prepared by and presented to either potential employees or current employees for signature. They are meant to protect the business from competition or from the sharing of proprietary information, but all…
Non-compete contracts have always been a controversial topic, but they’ve been getting a lot more attention in the last few years. In 2016 the sandwich chain Jimmy Johns agreed to stop including non-compete contracts in…
There was a time when signing non-compete agreements were only required of employees who knew trade secrets, or whose departure to a competitor represented a risk to a business’s profitability. But over the last several…
A non-compete agreement can make all the difference in your ability to maintain control of former employees’ actions, but only if the agreement itself is legal and enforceable. There are a surprising number of mistakes…
You’ve probably been told that you should never sign a contract before you’ve read it, and that’s very true. But as a non-attorney, contracts can be confusing, and that is especially true of non-compete or…
Increasingly, employees are being asked to sign non-compete agreements, and the question of whether or not they should is a tough one to answer. Where these contracts were once used to keep executives or those…
More and more companies are asking newly hired and long-standing employees at all levels of their organization to sign a non-compete agreement. These agreements are designed to protect the organization’s competitive edge and keep former…
It has become increasingly common for employers to ask new hires and employees of long standing to sign non-compete agreements. These are contractual agreements that are intended to prevent workers from sharing insider information about their…