Depending on an employee's role and contacts, a LinkedIn post about starting a new role can constitute a breach of their post-employment obligations, a workplace lawyer says.
An employer has a "sufficiently strong" case against a former manager who it claimed breached his employment contract by using its confidential information to solicit clients away to a competitor, the Federal Court has ruled.
A company could potentially have avoided litigation if it had responded to a warning that its new employee was breaching his confidentiality and non-compete obligations to his former employer, a court has found.
A manager and his "alter ego" company have been ordered to pay his former employer $474k, after a court found he breached his fiduciary duty not to use his position for personal gain.
A recent dispute over a non-disparagement clause in a settlement deed shows "it's really important to get language right" when drafting these agreements, a lawyer says.
An "unusual" case highlights the importance of ensuring commonly used settlement-deed clauses accurately reflect both parties' intentions upon separation, according to a lawyer.
An employer has won injunctions restraining two former employees accused of soliciting its clients to a competitor, with the Federal Court finding it needed protection from their "coordinated scheme".
It was open to conclude that an employer would keep losing clients if its former employee wasn't restrained from using its confidential information at his new workplace, the Federal Court has ruled.
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