How Employers Should Use Noncompetes In Fla.

Law360, New York (May 29, 2014, 10:44 AM EDT) -- It is not uncommon for employers in Florida to ask their employees to sign noncompete agreements to protect trade secrets, confidential business information and other "legitimate business interests." Where an employer spends substantial time and resources training an employee or provides the employee with access to customer lists, vendor lists or other confidential business information that is not readily available to the public, it is good business practice to protect the company by having employees sign noncompete agreements. The agreements should be sufficiently limited in scope and duration, encompassing all of the trade secrets and confidential business information that require protection and being sufficiently limited in duration to protect a legitimate business interest without being unduly burdensome to the former employee....

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