Month: January 2016

Posted By on Jan. 20th 2016

EMPLOYER END-RUNS AROUND CALIFORNIA’S PUBLIC POLICY AGAINST EMPLOYEE NON-COMPETITION AGREEMENTS

With limited exceptions, California courts treat non-competition agreements with California based employees as unenforceable restraints on trade contrary.  Companies headquartered outside of California, however, often seek to avoid this outcome by using choice of law and forum selection clauses in their California employment agreements—provisions which say the agreement is governed by the law of specified state other than California (choice of law), and that lawsuits must be heard in the courts of such other..