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I wonder, are there things they aren’t allowed to ask of you in the second case, as there are in the first? For example noncompete clauses are not allowed in C
by biztos 8y ago
I wonder, are there things they aren’t allowed to ask of you in the second case, as there are in the first?
For example noncompete clauses are not allowed in California. Would one be enforceable if signed voluntarily for money and not for employment?
- dragonwriter 8y ago> For example noncompete clauses are not allowed in California. Post-employment non-competes are generally invalid in CA.
- biztos 8y agoThanks for the clarification, I should have been more specific. But are they also invalid if signed outside the employment context?
- ChuckMcM 8y agoThere are things in both contracts that are likely not enforceable. If you litigate them you become "non friends" :-) So there is always a cost. My employment attorney felt that Google's employment contract over steps the protections provided by California in terms of outside work [1]. The way this works out in practice is you read the terms before you sign, if you find any that you can't live with you ask them to change, and if they won't change them then you don't sign and don't get what ever benefit they were offering in exchange for signing like employment, severance, etc. [1] I got to test this by participating as an expert witness (independent contractor) at a patent hearing and having the opposing counsel ask Google's counsel to make me available for deposition (my day job). That was an interesting conversation at work.