Obligations of Employees

  1. An employee is free to search for another job prior to leaving his current position?
    True
  2. An employee may not systemically induce other employees to leave their jobs if his purpose is to destroy an integral part of his employee’s business ?
    true
  3. If you disparage the employer’s product or the employer in some way you
    breach the duty of faithfulness
  4. Doctrine allows a court to enjoin a former employee from working for a competitor because the nature of the new job and the knowledge of the employee makes it inevitable that the trade secrets of the former employer will be disclosed.
    Trade secretes doctrine
  5. If there is a legitimate protectable interest, how do we know if the covenant not to compete is reasonable?
    • 1. Look at its interest
    • 2. Are the geographic area reasonable
    • 3. Are the activities reasonable
    • 4. Duration of the non-compete
  6. Covenants not to compete are enforceable ?
    no they are unenforceable. but are enforceable only to the extent they are reasonable and support by adequate consideration
  7. Covenants not to compete are enforced only if they are reasonable in their
    duration, proscribed activities, and geographic scope.
  8. employee hired to do creative work
    copyright can be assigned directly to Er
  9. Ee not hired to do creative work and ee comes up with idea and  er helps support creative work:
    er gets shop rights
  10. Er can use product/idea for free if they aided in the creative idea with time and resources
    Shop rights doctrine
  11. contract between er and ee that limits ee ability to compete with other er after leaving
    covenant not to compete
  12. how are CNC support by adequate consideration?
    If the agreement is entered before the start of employment and the ee signs it to begin employment
Author
dwrght16
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Card Set
Obligations of Employees
Description
Obligation of Employees
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