For many employers, confidential information, customer
connections and a pool of skilled employees are fundamental to the
success of their business. In a post-Covid world, where employers
need to capitalise on every asset and protect against avoidable
threats more than ever before, this is a particularly 'hot
topic. Applications for injunctions to protect confidential
information are increasingly hitting the courts – a trend
that is expected to continue.
Rebecca Jackson highlights some recent employee injunction cases
and offers practical advice for employers.
Injunctions against [former] employees
During or following termination of their employment, employees
or former employees often have the ability to take advantage of
confidential information, strategic plans, customer/client details
or other important information relating to their employer's
business – often to benefit a rival business. It is
therefore common for employers to include, in the contract
