This Bloomsbury Professional book is a definitive guide to the conflicts that can arise when an employee seeks to compete with his or her employer. It examines the protection of employers' interests and the freedom of employees to exploit their general skill and knowledge. This edition includes new chapters on fiduciary duties, database rights and international issues and it examines permissible conduct for employees who are leaving in "team moves".
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Chapter 8 Practical steps to protect the employer's interests
Chapter 11 Reasonableness of express covenants
2. Criteria relevant to reasonableness of non-competition covenant
3. Covenants against soliciting/dealing with customers/prospective customers
6. Covenants against the disclosure/use of trade secrets and confidential information
10. Indirect covenants and payments made under such covenants
13. Covenants combined with forfeiture/liquidated damages or penalty clauses
14. Ancillary clauses seeking to strengthen or preserve restrictive covenants
Chapter 14 Interim remedies: general
Chapter 18 Discovering competitive activity: the immediate practical issues