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  • 08-06-2019 9:13pm
    #1
    Vpnsub
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭


    Have a standard employee contact. Can't work for a direct competitior or any company that my current employer has a contract with. I have recently been shortlisted for the irish civil service by public jobs. My company has a contract with Government Departments. Can they stop me joining the civil service or block public jobs from assigning me to the department they have a contract with


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    #2
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users Posts: 7,498 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    Thats an almost unenforceable condition in your contract. You wont have any problems at all, even if they do assign you to it.


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    what are the listed remedies?

    id agree that stuff is unenforceable for all but a very few circumstances- particularly sensitive or high-level positions


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    Lantus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,027 ✭✭✭Lantus


    Where you might struggle is references. I'd say they will refuse to provide one. But just talk to them and see.


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    #5
    Vpnsub
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭Vpnsub


    That's the kind of feed back I have been getting. Appreciate the replies and feedback


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    dreamers75
    Registered Users Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭dreamers75


    I work for a data management company in my "contract" i cant work for any other data management company or any customer of ours.

    Best of luck enforcing that.

    There are jobs that would take this very seriously if you are in one you would know ie highly confidential interests.

    Also do you have 2 accounts?


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    skallywag
    Registered Users Posts: 3,000 ✭✭✭skallywag


    These clauses are usually time boxed, i.e. you cannot work with x for a period of y months / years after leaving.

    As to how seriously it will be pursued, this will pragmatically come down to how much damage you can actually do to them. Sometimes the clause is merely there as a scare tactic to prevent losing a good employee to a direct competitor, in which case you are almost certain to face no backlash apart from the reference topic which was already mentioned.

    There are situations (particularly in tech areas) though where an employee will have access to key IP and knowhow which is core to the success of an important product, and one will usually have signed an NDA etc. with the employer to keep this information confidential. If one was to move to a competitor and divulge such info then it would most certainly be taken very seriously, to the point that people could go to prison.


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