Restraint of trade and separation agreements

[TheTick]

I have been following the "Moving to Canada" thread with interest. However, I think this merits a new thread.

Has any of you out there ever been forced into not taking a new job due to an employment agreement's non-competition clause?

Gravity is a harsh mistress.

 

[plasgears]

In my company there is a story about a person who was planning to move to a competitor. He was legally restrained, and he spent a considerable time sequestered in a do-nothing job until a year passed.

 

[TheTick]

What? No one else? I suspected as much.

On justice and on friendship, there is no price, but there are established credit limits.

 

[HgTX]

Okay, an acquaintance of mine had to lie low for a year after leaving the consulting firm he'd worked for. He's back in the saddle now; not sure what he did for the year.

Hg