It's similar here, but with one important exception. If your contract says that you are not allowed to work for a competitor, the contract must also specify how long this quarantine is, and what geographical area it covers. But if a quarantine is set, then the first emplyer also must pay the employee in full for this quarantine. So what happens sometimes is that people who has such a contract relocates and start working for a competitor outside the "restricted" area, and gets paid both by their earlier employer and the new one!
>Reply No. 2. I forgot to mention that sometimes there are employee contracts in force that might limit how you walk into a new job. For instance the contract may stipulate that if you quit, then for a stipulated period (1 or 2 years possibly), you cannot work for a competitor on the same sort of projects that you handled before you quit. I've heard tell that those clauses may, after all, be unenforceable, but afaic, if you signed a contract, you're bound by it.
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>>It's not as awful as it may sound. If you have worked a place for less than a year, you must inform your employer one month before you stop working for him, and the other way around. From one to five years it's two months, after five years it's three months.
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>>Do you mean to say that in Canada a worker can just quit his job and go straight to another job the same day? I hardly think so.
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>>>That sounds awful. For an enlightened society, that sounds very feudal. Here we only have issues like that if there is an employment contract involved, and then it's just normal contract law that comes into play.
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>>>>If you leave without fulfilling the period after you give your employer your resignation, the employer can, and usually will, sue the employer for damages. These damages can be substantial, usually many times the salary for the period. And he is strictly forbidden to start in a new job, if this happens the police can be called to stop him. But I must say that this very rarely happens in real life, usually the employee makes some agreement with his employer.
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>>>>>Really? What crime are you charged with when you quit a job?
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>>>>>>I don't know how the laws are in Ireland, but here an employee must remain at work for a period relative to the time he has been employed. It's illegal for him to leave before this period ends, unless he gets a mutual agreement with his boss to leave earlier.
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>>>>>>>Hi.
>>>>>>>One of our clients suspects that his IT person is about to leave and is concerned that
>>>>>>> he will be left vulnerable.
>>>>>>>The IT guy lookas after all Hardware, Email, Remote Comms etc.
>>>>>>>The Client wants a check list / Question and answer sheet as to the
>>>>>>> key bits of info that should be available, so that he can get
>>>>>>> this form IT guy before he leaves.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I would apprciate suggeastions of a Check List type document
>>>>>>>Regards,
>>>>>>>Gerard
