Restrictive covenants and unfair dismissal

Willow Oak Developments Ltd (trading as Windsor Recruitment) v Silverwood: As a means of protection against loss of its employees to competitors, the claimants' employer required the employees to enter into widely drawn covenants restricting their business activities after their employment ended. The claimants refused and were dismissed. Upholding complaints of unfair dismissal, the employment tribunal held that the covenants were so unreasonable that the refusal was not a "reason of a k... (188 more words)

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