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Employee Restrictive Covenants: Becoming Increasingly Difficult to Implement and Enforce

As state legislatures continue their fervor for enacting employment-related laws, they simultaneously create ever more complex webs of legal compliance challenges for employers.  In that vein, one trend that continues to obscure the lines of what is or is not a lawful employment practice is the use restrictive covenant agreements.  It was not long ago that companies were essentially free to enter into a variety of restrictive covenant agreements with employees to protect business assets.  However, with California leading the way, employers now need to have their fingers on the pulse of law changes in the various states in which they operate before deciding to implement new restrictive covenant agreements or consider enforcing an existing one.