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The employment contracts will include clauses to that effect. All the company has to do is wait till you do something that appears successful and then jump in.
by rogerbinns 13y ago
The employment contracts will include clauses to that effect. All the company has to do is wait till you do something that appears successful and then jump in. When I worked in the UK all employment contracts I was given also prohibited any work elsewhere without company permission - eg you couldn't also work part time at a local supermarket. That is something I have never seen in California employment contracts.
An example of California law working is that the founders of Hotmail were working for other companies when they wondered why you couldn't access email in a browser. eBay was a similar hobby project.
- jiggy2011 13y agoI'm curious how enforceable this clause would be in the UK since it is usually considered to have more employee-favoured legislation than the US.
- toble 13y agoI am pretty sure an employer can't stop you working elsewhere, many of us are protected by human rights laws that void those sorts of terms.