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Non-poaching clause

A restriction that stops a former employee persuading colleagues to follow her. For 12 months, clause 23.4 bars Esme from trying to take anyone from the sales team she worked with in her last year to a Restricted Business. The attempt alone is a breach. Contract 23.4 · Chapter 8 · see Legitimate interest

Explained in Chapter 8, Restrictive Covenants: Non-Compete, Non-Solicitation and Non-Dealing, of Employment Contracts.

How it comes up, in Chapter 8
Esme will lead Cressby’s sellers. If she left and took the best of them with her, Cressby would lose its hotel sales and the people who know those customers, all at once. So the third interest is a stable sales team, and the non-poaching clause protects it…
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