Stolas
19-12-2006, 08:46 PM
My contract states the following:
The employee shall not at any time during the period of employment or for a period of 12 months after termination of employment, either on the employee's own account or for any other person, firm, organisation or employer:
(a) Carry out work for any customer of the employer;
(b) Solicit, endeavour to entice away from or discourage from being employed by the employer any other employee;
(c) Procure, direct or otherwise be instrumental in the diversion of any business of any client/customer or prospective client/customer of the employer away from the employer's business to any other business.
I'm in the IT sector so when it comes down to 'diversion of business of a prospective client/customer to another business' that can be quite broad.
I could work for an IT company who wants to branch out after I join, or I become inhouse IT and work says they would try and get the business thus it was a prospective customer etc.
I'm wondering what would happen if I did work for a customer or a prospective customer or competition and they decided to bring it about as a legal matter?
What if they've 'lost' the signed copy of my contract also?
I'm in NZ by the way, and this is a separate nick name for the purpose of asking about job related stuff without being known who I am.
The employee shall not at any time during the period of employment or for a period of 12 months after termination of employment, either on the employee's own account or for any other person, firm, organisation or employer:
(a) Carry out work for any customer of the employer;
(b) Solicit, endeavour to entice away from or discourage from being employed by the employer any other employee;
(c) Procure, direct or otherwise be instrumental in the diversion of any business of any client/customer or prospective client/customer of the employer away from the employer's business to any other business.
I'm in the IT sector so when it comes down to 'diversion of business of a prospective client/customer to another business' that can be quite broad.
I could work for an IT company who wants to branch out after I join, or I become inhouse IT and work says they would try and get the business thus it was a prospective customer etc.
I'm wondering what would happen if I did work for a customer or a prospective customer or competition and they decided to bring it about as a legal matter?
What if they've 'lost' the signed copy of my contract also?
I'm in NZ by the way, and this is a separate nick name for the purpose of asking about job related stuff without being known who I am.