{"id":307,"date":"2014-03-15T21:48:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T05:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=307"},"modified":"2014-03-15T21:49:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T05:49:12","slug":"employment-termination-agreement-and-restraint-of-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"Employment Termination Agreement and Restraint of Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.gov.bc.ca\/jdb-txt\/CA\/14\/00\/2014BCCA0097.htm\">Rhebergen v. Creston Veterinary Clinic Ltd.<\/a>, 2014 BCCA 97 concerns a form of post-employment non-competition agreement. These types of agreements being in the nature of a restraint on trade must be reasonable. Courts will hold overbroad conditions unenforceable. Be careful with restrictions you place on the departing employee&#8217;s ability to work. If the area that you don&#8217;t want the employee to work in is too large, or the duration of the limitation is too long or there is a large financial penalty placed on the employee you will have a problem enforcing the non-compete agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhebergen v. Creston Veterinary Clinic Ltd., 2014 BCCA 97 concerns a form of post-employment non-competition agreement. These types of agreements being in the nature of a restraint on trade must be reasonable. Courts will hold overbroad conditions unenforceable. Be careful with restrictions you place on the departing employee&#8217;s ability to work. If the area that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-law","category-labour-law","category-litigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}