Employment covenants and confidential information : law, practice and technique / Selwyn Bloch and Kate Brearley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloch, Selwyn, author.

Brearley, Kate, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor laws and legislation--Great Britain.

Labor laws and legislation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xc, 1422 pages)

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Haywards Heath : Bloomsbury Professional, 2018.

Summary:

"Written under the general editorship of two specialist employment law practitioners, with contributions from their respective Chambers and Law Firm, Employment Covenants and Confidential Information: Law, Practice and Technique, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive yet highly practical analysis of the law and practice in this area of employment disputes, setting out appropriate strategies from both the employer's and employee's perspective. The book focuses on how to prevent competitive activity by an employee or former employee and what to do when it happens. Clear guidance is given on drafting to minimise the risk of competitive activity, what activities an employee or ex-employee may and may not undertake and the remedies available where competitive activity occurs. This expanded edition includes up-to-date coverage of: Case law relevant to the drafting and interpretation of employment covenants Current trends regarding enforcement of employment covenants and duties of confidentiality Developments in the law on fiduciary duties and the interrelationship with duties of fidelity Fresh perspectives on garden leave, springboard injunctions and team moves Remedies available against the (ex-)employee and third party competitors Disputes with a foreign law element: conflict of laws, exclusive jurisdiction clauses, choice of law and anti-suit injunctions Employment Covenants and Confidential Information, Fourth Edition is essential reading for all employment law practitioners, HR professionals and company directors responsible for drafting and enforcing employment contracts. Through the use of checklists, flowcharts, precedents and case studies it translates theory into practice."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Aim and synopsis of the book

Chapter 2 The employment relationship

Chapter 3 The implied duty of fidelity

Chapter 4 Employee fiduciary duties

Chapter 5 Express terms of the contract of employment

Chapter 6 Confidential information

Chapter 7 Database rights

Chapter 8 Practical steps to protect the employer's interests during employment

Chapter 9 Termination of employment

Chapter 10 Legitimate protection for the ex-employer

Chapter 11 Reasonableness of express covenants

Chapter 12 Drafting restrictive covenants

Chapter 13 Introducing

varying restrictive covenants

Chapter 14 Interim remedies: general

Chapter 15 Specific interim remedies

Chapter 16 Final remedies

Chapter 17 International elements

Chapter 18 Discovering competitive activity: the immediate practical issues

Chapter 19 Team moves

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781784512385

1784512389

9781784512347

1784512346

OCLC:

1090444732