Remember To Get Key Employment-Related Agreements Signed

In order to protect their valuable business assets, many employers require key employees to sign employment-related agreements such as non-compete, non-disclosure, and non-solicitation agreements. When properly drafted, these agreements can be extremely helpful in protecting an employer's legitimate business interests such as confidential and propriety information and an employer's goodwill with its customers. However, despite the expenditure of significant time and money to craft these agreements, for one reason or another, the agreements do not always end up getting signed. Maybe the agreement gets missed in the stack of documents reviewed during the orientation process. Or maybe the high-level employee intentionally decides not to sign the agreement to keep his or her options open. Without a signed non-compete agreement, stopping that key employee from working for a direct competitor gets that much harder.