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Restraints of Trade – Corporate
There is always much work to be done when an employee leaves his or her employment. But if your employee fails to comply with his or her post-employment obligations, you may soon find yourself in an unfortunate and distracting situation.
At Harmers Workplace Lawyers, we understand that, over the course of their careers, your employees will work with a variety of employers. But if an employee is leaving for a new role with a competitor, or setting up a competing business, you may be entitled to take reasonable precautions against them to protect your business interests.
As one of Australia’s most recognised and experienced employment law firms, we take pride in advising and representing clients who operate in industries in which employees are readily and regularly engaged by competing firms.
We believe in taking a preventative and proactive approach to restraint disputes wherever possible. In most cases, informal resolution of such disputes achieves the best outcome for our clients, because this resolves matters expeditiously, amicably and discretely in a cost effective manner. We pride ourselves on having strong negotiation skills, and we also have experience negotiating with most law firms on the other side and many in house lawyers from companies around Australia.
Whilst the vast majority of our matters settle early and discretely through these negotiations, our solicitors are experienced litigators, prepared to maintain and defend our clients’ rights to protect their business interests. We will pursue those rights vigorously and to the full extent of the law.
Whether our clients discover their former employees are poaching clients, inducing co-workers to resign from their employment, misusing confidential information, or establishing a competing business, our solicitors will listen to what our clients want to achieve: be it, restraining your former employer from engaging in certain activities or seeking financial compensation for business losses.
Because these matters often need to be dealt with on an urgent basis, it is best to act as soon as possible to discuss your options. For example, a departing employee can cause significant and irreversible losses to your business in a short timeframe.
If you do have a workplace issue or concern, please call one of our solicitors for a discussion of the utmost confidentiality and sensitivity on phone (+61 2) 9267 4322.
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Michael Doucas Head of Risk Management Findex“Using Harmers has been the best experience I have had when it comes to employment law support, and over time has enabled us to achieve stability in our workforce.”
Kylie Taylor, Head of HR & WHSE, Coal Services“I have found the advice and service of Michael Harmer and the team at Harmers Workplace Lawyers to be brilliant, timely and added significant value to the process.”
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