Comments on: Non-Compete Agreements http://www.melinamurray.com/2008/09/non-compete-agreements/ HR thoughts for all companies and HR services for small companies Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:16:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: melinamurray http://www.melinamurray.com/2008/09/non-compete-agreements/#comment-1221 melinamurray Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:29:47 +0000 http://www.melinamurray.com/?p=70#comment-1221 Some ideas around this are: Non-competes that are specific instead of vague and all-encompassing. Restricting a former employee from contacting current customers for a period of time. Writing a very solid Proprietary Inventions/Assignments Agreements for all employees when they start. The main things a company wants to protect are its IP and customers. Making sure an employe understands and legally acknowledges the rights of the company to protect these assets instead of preventing them from working in the same field is much more reasonable. Again, geography plays a huge role in the ability to use and uphold non-competes. And- in an economy moving towards high unemployment, I do wonder if the states who generally uphold them will continue to do so. -Melina Some ideas around this are:
Non-competes that are specific instead of vague and all-encompassing.
Restricting a former employee from contacting current customers for a period of time.
Writing a very solid Proprietary Inventions/Assignments Agreements for all employees when they start.

The main things a company wants to protect are its IP and customers. Making sure an employe understands and legally acknowledges the rights of the company to protect these assets instead of preventing them from working in the same field is much more reasonable.

Again, geography plays a huge role in the ability to use and uphold non-competes. And- in an economy moving towards high unemployment, I do wonder if the states who generally uphold them will continue to do so.

-Melina

]]> By: jswi_jim http://www.melinamurray.com/2008/09/non-compete-agreements/#comment-831 jswi_jim Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:39:30 +0000 http://www.melinamurray.com/?p=70#comment-831 Melina -- Do you have any examples of "ways to write a non-compete that doesn’t prevent a person from making a living doing what they do best in a place they can grow, enjoy their work and contribute to the company’s success (assuming that is not with their current company)"? Melina —

Do you have any examples of “ways to write a non-compete that doesn’t prevent a person from making a living doing what they do best in a place they can grow, enjoy their work and contribute to the company’s success (assuming that is not with their current company)”?

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