Beyond Restrictive Covenants: Proactive Ways To Deter Employee Competition

It is, perhaps, a little trite to say that businesses need to ensure that they have effective and enforceable restrictive covenants in place to deter employees from stealing confidential information.

Putting restrictive covenants in place to avoid what is called employee competition is important not just to protect the business and deter employees from stealing information, but also to protect customers and prospects.

Having such covenants in place allows you to take out injunctions against those that attempt to steal company information or clients / customers, but what more can HR do to protect the business and its customers?

The key to protecting your business is good collaboration between HR and IT, and the avoidance of blanket restrictions, as Louise Taft, consultant employment law solicitor at Jurit LLP, explores.