Non-Solicit Confidentiality Agreement

A non-solic­it is eas­i­er to impose than writ­ing than a non-com­pe­ti­tion clause. But non-solic­its pose dif­fi­cult evi­den­ty issues – because a com­plainant must show that the employ­ee has recruit­ed some­one to whom non-adver­tis­ing applies. Under Geor­gian law, the sim­ple response of an inter­est­ed cus­tomer is usu­al­ly not an invi­ta­tion. [6] This mes­sage often con­tains infor­ma­tion […]

A non-solic­it is eas­i­er to impose than writ­ing than a non-com­pe­ti­tion clause. But non-solic­its pose dif­fi­cult evi­den­ty issues – because a com­plainant must show that the employ­ee has recruit­ed some­one to whom non-adver­tis­ing applies. Under Geor­gian law, the sim­ple response of an inter­est­ed cus­tomer is usu­al­ly not an invi­ta­tion. [6] This mes­sage often con­tains infor­ma­tion out­side of a complainant‘s pos­ses­sion – often emails or text mes­sages to their cus­tomers. In prac­tice, clients of an appli­cant who can be suc­cess­ful­ly recruit­ed may not be able to tell the appli­cant about the invi­ta­tion and an appli­cant may only be informed of unsuc­cess­ful appli­ca­tions. A con­fi­den­tial­i­ty agree­ment is a con­fi­den­tial­i­ty agree­ment that may have last­ed as long as this infor­ma­tion remains con­fi­den­tial. [7] The def­i­n­i­tion of “con­fi­den­tial infor­ma­tion” has many sim­i­lar­i­ties to the def­i­n­i­tion of a “trade secret”. [8] Geor­gian law con­tains exam­ples of pos­si­ble types of con­fi­den­tial infor­ma­tion: “Busi­ness secrets, oper­at­ing meth­ods, cus­tomer names, price lists, finan­cial infor­ma­tion and fore­casts, route books, per­son­al data and sim­i­lar infor­ma­tion.” [9] All of these restric­tive agree­ments con­sti­tute a form of trade restric­tion. Courts gen­er­al­ly view these agree­ments as mech­a­nisms that restrict com­pe­ti­tion in the mar­ket and a worker‘s abil­i­ty to sign con­tracts and use employ­ment skills to his or her advan­tage. As such, the Com­mon Law treats restric­tive agree­ments and, in par­tic­u­lar, non-com­pe­ti­tion rules as con­trary to pub­lic pol­i­cy and are there­fore null and void, unless they are rea­son­able, prop­er­ly word­ed and proven nec­es­sary. A non-solic­i­tor is per­haps the most use­ful in pro­tect­ing an employer‘s invest­ment in time and mon­ey in devel­op­ing cus­tomer rela­tion­ships. Under the law, a non-solic­it is usu­al­ly an agree­ment not to pro­mote an employer‘s clients or poten­tial clients in which the work­er has worked.

[5] A non-com­pe­ti­tion clause is per­haps the most use­ful in pro­tect­ing the time and mon­ey spent on devel­op­ing an employee‘s skills. Under the law, a non-com­pete clause is an agree­ment that “restricts com­pe­ti­tion for the dura­tion of a restric­tive agree­ment.” [3] Non-com­pete oblig­a­tions are the most dif­fi­cult to enforce, as an enforce­able non-com­pe­ti­tion clause must meet more require­ments than inac­tiv­i­ty or non-pub­li­ca­tion. In your busi­ness, you‘ve prob­a­bly heard of most or all of these agree­ments. You can even use them all. And often, these agree­ments are all part of a doc­u­ment or con­tract. There­fore, these agree­ments can often be put in the same bag. For exam­ple, peo­ple use “non-con­test” to include a “non-solicite.” Nev­er­the­less, under­stand­ing the dif­fer­ences in these agree­ments can make it eas­i­er to achieve and achieve your busi­ness goals.. .

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