Refusal to sign unreasonable restrictive covenants

• Author:
• Sheila Gunn

In the recent case of Willow Oak Development t/a Windsor Recruitment v Silverwood the EAT held that dismissal for refusing to sign new restrictive covenants could be a potentially fair for some other substantial reason (SOSR), notwithstanding that the covenants were unreasonably wide and potentially unenforceable.

Windsor Recruitment (Windsor) was an employment agency supplying staff in the health-care sector. Numerous successful attempts to poach Windsor's staff had been made by competito... (539 more words)

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