California Employment Legal Questions

You should look up Cal. Business and Professions Code 16600. It sounds as if your non compete is void and unenforceable in California since you are not a business owner and not privy to confidential trade secrets of the company. Your former employer's threat are not legally enforceable in California based on the information you have provided.... Read More

I cannot tell without a review of all the documentation. Non-competition agreements are certainly legal in Michigan, and one of the reasons for them is to keep companies which had previously been contracting outside company's employees from converting those jobs to full-time, inside positions, and stripping the contracting company of its employees by hiring them. Obviously, assuming that the contracting company was making money with the placement, that is competitive and detrimental to the contract employee's previous company. On the other hand, I would be surprised that company B was not constrained, and in fact prohibited, from hiring previous contract employees for at least a period of time or without providing some form of consideration to company A. That is normally how contract employee providing the company protects itself.... Read More

The real problem here is that A should have had an agreement with B that if B hires A's people, B would pay 6 months of your salary to A. That is what I put in my agreements and it is only fair. A's argument is really with B. But if they want to sue you, I suppose you give the complaint to B and see what it says.... Read More