Restrictive covenants in employee contracts

• Authors:
• Elizabeth Stevens
• Ian Robotham

Every business has a body of information that it considers to be secret, confidential, sensitive and integral to that business’ success. Information that, if disclosed to another person, particularly a competitor, could cause significant damage to that business.

 

In order to protect a business’ market position, employers often attempt to restrict the use of such information by requiring employees to enter into contractual restrictions (usually within their contract of em... (75 more words)

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