Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cbdkc1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbdkc1!fran From: fran@cbdkc1.UUCP ( Frank Webb 3587) Newsgroups: net.legal,net.jobs Subject: Re: Employment Contract Message-ID: <529@cbdkc1.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Jun-84 21:49:16 EDT Article-I.D.: cbdkc1.529 Posted: Sun Jun 3 21:49:16 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Jun-84 20:01:35 EDT References: <334@ut-sally.UUCP>, <662@abnjh.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Columbus Lines: 23The employment contract you showed will meet any court of law's current interpretation. The time period and the restrictions are within the current readings of "reasonable", and the clause that the courts can set a reasonable time or restriction should the current definition prove too burdensome is a good cop-out. The real question is whether your "livelihood" is jeapordized by the restrictions. If you are a programmer, and they try and keep you from programming, then it will not stick. If you are a programmer, and they teach you, or provide the environment to learn, let's say, robotics control, then they have the right to restrict your entry into robotics control either in direct competition, or by being employed by a competitor. You have to determine whether you are going to learn enough for them to want to enforce the contract. If you are good, then it is in their interest to keep you on the sidelines for a year until your stored information is less valuable to you, and less threatening to them. . Frank Webb cbdkc1!fran