Non-Compete Clauses in Employment Contracts - Types, Enforceability & Future Developments

Introduction

This virtual classroom seminar will provide a guide to non-compete clauses and other restraints of trade commonly included in Employment contracts.

What types exist? Why do employers want them? Do they work? Are they enforceable? Will non-compete clauses soon have a three-month limit? If so, what might employers seek to do instead to protect their business interests?

This course will be of interest to HR professionals and Employment lawyers who are looking for a refresher on the law regarding restraints of trade with an eye to future developments. It will also be of interest to Civil Litigators who sometimes encounter restraints of trade in Employment Contracts being of relevance to wider disputes that they are instructed in.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive course will cover the following:

• An overview of non-compete clauses, non-solicitation clauses and non-dealing clauses. Garden leave, implied duties of fidelity and atypical restraints of trade are outside the scope of this course but will be touched upon briefly
• An overview of the legal enforceability of restraints of trade and how they are enforced in practice using the civil courts
• A look at some of the key case law
• Possible future developments including a cap of three months on the duration of non-compete clauses. What might employers look to do instead if that is introduced?

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.