Can you lock someone into a contract stating they cannot work for a competitor for X months? I thought you can't do this. I had a situation with a company i worked for, who basically put in the contract the very same thing you described "Cannot divulge company secrets, cannot work for my competitor etc"
Took it to my lawyer, and he basically laughed and stated its Restraint of your trade, and they can't restrict or dictate as to who you work for after leaving a position. You quit/fired from a position, its basically go out and start again scenario and no one can dictate as what rules / conditions. If thats the case, then we better have a backup trade for X months, while we wait for the timeout as we can't do any web development as that would be in direct competition to your employer? In this case, frankly the problem lied with someone knowing way to much information about a companies infrastructure. I've heard stories of where in a "professional" environment, the IT guys knew a person was fired before they did, in that they'd come in that morning to find that they can't login and with a yellow post-it note saying "See HR".. Walk in, and its bam, right between the eyes. They do this for this very reason in that, it doesn't give a person enough time / control to damage company assets / information. Same goes with IT people, most companies will escort you from the building within 20mins of being "fired" or after you resign. You need to have a monitoring situation on your sysadmins and have someone check their work etc, play big brother if you have such sensitive information. Also backups anyone? --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/
