Re: FN-FORUM: Advertising Bastards

date posted 11th January 2006 12:59

At 10:43 am +0000 11/1/06, CreativeNRG.co.uk wrote:
>Read your contract and see where you stand with regards to the customers
>you have been working with and local competition as one of my previous
>contracts had a clause in it preventing me from working for competitors
>within a 20 miles radius for a period of time after my employment ended.

I strongly suspect this was an illegal clause.

It *may or may not* be possible for an employer to prevent an
employee from working for their clients for a limited period after
the employee has chosen to terminate his/her contract of employment.

However, preventing you from working for their competitors within
such a large area could easily prevent them you earning a living
full-stop - which they definitely have no right to do.

That clause has got to be b*llshit.

The only way I can see this applying is if you were working on
projects which required you to maintain secrets, such as new product
development with IP rights sensitivities. In which case it would
certainly be reasonable and legal to bind you to a non-disclosure
agreement - but that's all.

ColinR
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