Re: FN-FORUM: Advertising Bastards

date posted 12th January 2006 00:31

Well done - what shoud infringe you from working from clients that they will
probably loose anyway due to loss from their inflatable fees.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Quick" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 4:00 AM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Advertising Bastards


>
> After I'd been working for one of my previous employers for 6 months
> they asked me to sign a contract which prevented me from carrying
> out my own business or working for any other company that carried on
> the same business as them (design, web design etc) in any country in
> which they carried out business for 12 months. Given they did
> business in the UK, US and Caribbean that would have left me in a
> slightly tricky situation. I didn't sign the contract.
>
> Rich Quick
> http://www.richardquickdesign.com
>
>
>
> On 11 Jan 2006, at 11:18, Graeme J Sweeney wrote:
>
> >
> > On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, 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.
> >
> > So your employer terminates your contract but still holds you to a
> > specific term and condition after you've left?
> >
> > I've often wondered about these sort of clauses: they're not
> > actually enforcable, are they!?
> >
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