On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, guy keren wrote: > > On 17 Jul 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > > I actually paid a bunch of lawyers once to understand a particularly > > difficult employment contract. It was explained to me at length that > > the law (in Israel) recognizes non-competition without any explicit > > clauses in the contract. > > > > What the law will not uphold is a non-competition with overly broad > > scope or too long a duration. > > there was a case laetly, in a israely court (i think it was half a year or > so ago), in which the court tore-down a non-competetion clause that had a > 2-years limitation (which is a very common case). the case dealt with an > employer of a company that gave services to other companies. this employe > left the company, and started giving the same type of service (i think it > was service for some software package), to some of the clients of his > former company. the company went and sued. the court said the employee is > allowed to give the service he does, but must reutrn the info about > customers he took from the original company, back to the company. > (i hope i wrote the details correctly - i don't have the article). > > if you want to know more details, i suggest you look this court rulling > up. its a new precedence in this area, btw, and represents a change in the > interpretation of the 'freedom of occupation' law in israel, relative to > the norm that existed in the past.
It sounds close to a precedence ruling I recall, from around the same time, that "tkufat tzinun" set in a contract exceeding that set by law in invalid unless the former employee is in possession of the former employer's secret information - or something along those lines. Could have been the same case. -- Thanks, Uri http://translation.israel.net ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
