Question: We are a Wisconsin employer that has recently lost a number of employees to competing companies in our area. We’re worried our competitors are getting an unfair edge in the market, basically using employees we’ve spent time and resources...
Question: We are a business headquartered in Minnesota. We plan to expand into other states but have concerns with investing the time and money in training new employees in a very competitive industry. We currently have our Minnesota employees sign...
Question: We are an accounting firm and recently fired an employee at will. We have always understood that Montana law disfavors non-competition agreements, therefore, our employment agreement provides that if the accountant provides services to our clients within six months...
The article below addresses another aspect of employees moving from one company to another — agreements between two or more competitive corporations not to solicit, or hire, each other’s employees. The article below first appeared in Antitrust, Vol. 26, No. 3,...
Question: We recently acquired a small company. We felt it would be a good fit for our considerably larger enterprise in part because we picked up a geographic sales territory in the Midwest that we previously were not covering very...
Question: Our company does business in all 50 states. To the greatest extent possible, we like to have uniform employment policies for our employees, wherever they may be located. As you know, this goal is frustrated somewhat by the differences...
Question: Like many companies, we are in a highly competitive industry. We spend a lot of time training our sales employees to perform their jobs, at a considerable expense to our company. Consequently, we have all of our sales personnel...
Question: Our company has a sales force composed of individuals located throughout the U.S. When we hire sales employees, we use a term employment agreement, typically of three years’ duration. Our employment contracts include post-employment restrictive covenants, the most important...
Question: One of our employees recently left our company and joined one of our competitors. He did not have a non-compete (we are located in a state that rejects non-competes). But, he did have an inventions assignment agreement. He took...
Question: We are a nationwide company with offices and employees in nearly every state. One of our primary growth areas is California. We understand that California courts are generally inhospitable to post-employment restrictive covenants, including non-competes. But, we are trying...
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