A severance agreement is a contract created between an employer and departing employee which generally provides for compensation the employee is to receive upon or soon after departure and which governs the rights and relationships between the employer and employee going forward. The compensation is usually the easy part because it has the least amount…
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Non-Compete Agreements in Missori
The purpose of a non-compete agreement is to protect an employer from unfair competition. Missouri law, then, balances the interest in having robust commercial activity against the interest of employers being subjected to an uneven playing field by working against competitors who have insight into how the other works from a former employee. In balancing…
Covenant Not to Compete Agreement: Saint Louis, Missouri
Non-Compete agreements have always been around, but it seems that they have come to the forefront in recent years. The purpose of a non-compete agreement is to protect an employer from unfair competition. Missouri law, then, balances the interest in having robust commercial activity against the interest of employers being subjected to an uneven playing…
Non-Solicitation & Confidentiality: Restrictive Covenants
Restrictive Covenant is the broad phrase applied to contracts which curtail an employee’s ability to work for competitors after leaving an employer (See: Non-Compete Agreements), not to take workers/accounts when leaving, confidentiality agreements, etc. As detailed on my previous post concerning non-compete clauses, Missouri rarely enforces such provisions. They must be reasonable spatially, temporally, and…
Non-Compete Agreements
Non-compete provisions in employment contracts are becoming more and more commonplace. And as their use increases, so too does the litigation about their validity. In my estimation, there are three overriding policy interests present in the litigation over non-compete agreements. First, there is the interest in protecting an employer from having employees jump ship and…