Question: Our company’s headquarters is located in Seattle, Washington. We want to hire someone to start up our company’s new location in another state. Because of the competitiveness of our industry, we would like our new employee to sign a non-compete...
Quirky Question # 126: We have a non-compete issue. Several years ago, we provided our employees with an employment agreement that contained various post-employment restrictive covenants. When one of our employees left a couple of years later and started competing...
Best Practices to Ensure that a Non-Competition Agreement is Enforceable in China By Richard Chao and Haidong Yang Introduction After more than a year since the implementation of the PRC Employment Contract Law (the “Law”) (the PRC Employment Contract Law...
Quirky Question # 104: We are a high tech company. We use various post-employment restrictive covenants with many, though not all, of our employees. For our engineers, our senior managers and other select employees, however, we require non-competition, non-solicitation and...
Quirky Question # 96: Our company is considering requiring our existing and future employees to sign non-competition agreements. To make the agreements more palatable to our employees, we are considering linking the obligations imposed on the employees to an obligation...
Quirky Question # 78: I am the HR Director at our company. I just learned that one of our most valuable employees has resigned and taken a position with a competitor. I requested our IT Department to make an evaluation...
Quirky Question # 55: We have a highly mobile workforce, and we are concerned about our former employees going to work for a competitor, stealing our customers, and raiding our employees. We are a technology based company and have developed...
Quirky Question # 52: I formerly was employed as an engineer of a high tech start-up company. I worked for the company for several years in a non-management role. The company struggled to complete its product (or even to get...
Quirky Question # 11: Our firm uses non-competition agreements for a number of our key employees. The non-competition agreement was drafted by our outside counsel who tells us that it is enforceable. One of our managers who had signed such...
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