Better hire a lawyer to write one for you if the boss truly wants it to be as tight as possible. That overly broad statement you posted is just asking for an expensive legal battle down the road...assuming you could pursuade anyone to sign something that broad to start with.
Ken -----Original Message----- From: Barney Boisvert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 2:47 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: legal issues Yeah, that's what I've been gathering, but the boss says they need one, and I'd rather do a bit of work now than potentially get into a battle down the road. Load of bureaucratic BS, but such is life. --- Barney Boisvert, Senior Development Engineer AudienceCentral [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice : 360.756.8080 x12 fax : 360.647.5351 www.audiencecentral.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 11:39 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: legal issues > > > Not sure about the legal situation in the US, but in Canada most > lawyers will tell ya non-compete agreements are just expensive pieces > of paper...easily fought if need be....just too many ways of reading > them...too many gray areas > > Cheers > > Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. > VP & Director of E-Commerce Development > Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. > t. 250.920.8830 > e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------- > Macromedia Associate Partner > www.macromedia.com > --------------------------------------------------------- > Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group > Founder & Director > www.cfug-vancouverisland.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Barney Boisvert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 11:21 AM > Subject: legal issues > > > > My company recently spawned off from a parent company, and > we're drafting > a > > non-compete agreement and looking for some insight as to wording. > > We > found > > a couple generic agreements, and they used such remarkably > vague terms as > > "... the Employee shall not own, manage, operate, consult to or be > employed > > in a business substantially similar to the present or future > > business of > the > > Company ..." > > > > I don't have a particular problem with signing an appropriate > non-compete, > > and my employer wants to ensure the agreement is suitable for all > concerned, > > which is very nice, so there is some flexability. > > > > The company develops a web-based communications management tool that > > is licensed and hosted ASP-style (Application Service Provider, not > > Active Server Pages ;). As well as doing all development, we do all > > the sales > and > > support services. My concern is that any web app could be > construed as a > > web-based communications management tool, especially anything > that's not a > > basic web site (an email newsletter with web-based authoring, for > example), > > so the definition of "competition" needs a fairly high degree of > precision. > > > > I'm sure there are people out there who've fought this battle > before, and > I > > was wondering if any of you had some insight, or even some sample > language. > > > > thanks, > > barneyb > > > > --- > > Barney Boisvert, Senior Development Engineer AudienceCentral > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > voice : 360.756.8080 x12 > > fax : 360.647.5351 > > > > www.audiencecentral.com > > > > --- > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > Version: 6.0.500 / Virus Database: 298 - Release Date: 7/10/2003 > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
