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February 5, 2006 at 08:28 PM
jiansec

resign legal issue

by jiansec . Updated 20 years, 4 months ago

Hello Forum,

I finally decided to resign gracefully and professionally from my current employer. But I found a clause in my contract signed three years ago. It said that I cannot work for the same domain for one year after my termination except I am fired. I wasn’t told exactly at the time of employment. It was in French!!!
I currently accepted one offer in different country (neighborhood). Do you think the clause is still applicable to me? Does the clause make sense? My company is a pretty small start up company. I am the only one providing one of the core service.

I asked one ex-employee. He said, even I signed it, it is not applicable under law since I need the skills and knowledge to earn a living. Does it true? How to prevent it haunting me one day?

There won’t have any clients overlapped in these two companies.

Thanks.

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