At 21:34 20-6-01 -0600, Michael Harney wrote:
>This is why I absolutely refused to sign a non-compete agreement with the
>present company I work for. I plan to leave this town within a few years,
>and the non-compete agreement said that I could not work for any competitor
>or any other company related to my present job for 2 years following my
>leaving the company.
Just out of curiosity...
How far do American employers go with that? Can you get non-compete
agreements that say you can't do the same job for a certain numbers of
years, or for a company located within so-many miles of the first employer
(or even for a company anywhere in the country), or both? And how often do
they get away with it?
These kinds of agreements are not uncommon here either, certainly for
people with very specific skills. Often though, the terms are quite
ludicrous. It therefore often happens that when an employee wants to leave
and his employer wants to keep him to the agreement, the employee takes the
case to court and wins.
Jeroen
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