Luxury Homes and Estates of Florida Magazine
by Houston E. Short

An employer with a business has much to lose if a dissident employee sets up a competing company. The employer could lose valuable trade secrets, confidential business information, or customer lists. In reaction to the threat employers went too far and required menial or low level employees to execute a covenant not to compete restricting their employment opportunities for a specified time and in a defined geographic area. The employee saddled with such a restrictive agreement could not find alternative employment. More.....