Non-compete agreements are increasingly at the heart of employment litigation in today's business climate. More employers are taking strong actions to protect their business interests. Likewise, many more employees look for every opportunity to survive and move ahead in a challenging job market. As a result of these competing forces, non-compete agreement disputes have become quite common.
Types of Non-Compete Agreement Disputes
Fine restaurants now routinely ask waiters to sign non-compete agreements pledging not to work for any competitor restaurants for a number of months after termination of employment. Advertising agencies and news outlets such as newspapers and radio stations require their sales force to sign agreements not to solicit advertising from their ongoing contact list of customers in the event that a sales consultant goes to work for a competitor. Many other types of employers are asking new employees to agree to non-compete conditions.
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Details differ but the heart of the matter is the same: Businesses want and need to protect their intellectual property, including customer lists and other trade secrets. Employees may contend that the non-compete agreements they have signed or have been asked to sign are or were inherently unfair and overly restrictive. Furthermore, an employee may dispute an employer's claim that he or she violated a non-compete agreement.
When an employer files a lawsuit based on allegations of a violation of a non-compete agreement, the employee in question may not be the only defendant. A worker's former employer might sue the worker's new employer, as well, when the new employer looked the other way or was even openly complicit in the alleged violation.
Other non-compete agreement cases have to do with new, private businesses founded by a recently departed employee. Legal causes of action in these cases may be employee theft, misuse of proprietary information or breach of fiduciary duty when a former employer allegedly abused assets such as customer lists or operating processes used in the new business.
Whatever your concern is in a non-compete agreement matter as an employer, Texas lawyers at Key Harrington Barnes, PC, are prepared to aggressively represent you as plaintiff or defendant.
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