Category Archives: Restrictive Covenants

How Employers Obtain Restrictive Covenants from Employees

When an employer wants to get additional protection against what former employees might do with knowledge and experienced gained while employed for that employer, the employer might attempt to get its employees to enter into restrictive covenants. An employer can accomplish this Continue reading How Employers Obtain Restrictive Covenants from Employees

The Process of Enforcing Restrictive Covenants

So, what happens when an employer decides to enforce a restrictive covenant against an employee ? Continue reading The Process of Enforcing Restrictive Covenants

The Enforeability of Restrictive Covenants

Normally, if you enter into an agreement with another person to do or not do something, a court will enforce that agreement if you violate it, with the assumption that you got some kind of fair exchange in the agreement. So, without knowing anything else, you would think that a court would enforce a restrictive covenant. But that is not necessarily the case Continue reading The Enforeability of Restrictive Covenants

Types of Restrictive Covenants

Although there is no law preventing employers from defining other types of restrictive covenants, on this webpage, we’ll discuss only two types: the covenant not to compete (“non-compete”) and the covenant not to solicit (“non-solicitation” provisions).

In a non-compete, the employee agrees Continue reading Types of Restrictive Covenants