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‘Informal’ grievance satisfies requirements of statutory procedureA Rock and a Hard Place...Review of Jury Trials is called for by Airline Bomb Verdict |
Restrictive covenant too wide to be enforceable in relation to business cardsEmployers need to ensure that clauses in their contracts of employment, dealing with eg confidential information and non-solicitation, are drawn only as widely as is necessary, or else they may be unenforceable.In a recent High Court case, an employee of a broadcasting company went to work for a rival company, and took a number of business cards and customer addresses with him. His former employer sought an injunction against the employee, arguing that he had taken confidential information with him, in breach of his contract of employment.The court found that the business cards belonged to the company and should be returned, as they had been given to the employee not as an individual but as a representative of the company.However, it refused to grant the injunction sought by the company, as the clause in the employee's contract defined... |
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