Invisible wrote:
>>> Wait - you mean if somebody is in a contract, it's not necessarily 
>>> enforcible?
>>
>> Most clauses in a contract are not laws in terms of things that are 
>> illegal to do, they are just things that will get your contract 
>> terminated (ie sacked) if you don't abide by them.  After you have 
>> left a company obviously the contract is terminated anyway
> 
> Hmm. So once you no longer work for them, they can't make you do anything!
> 
>> Obviously working for a competitor is not illegal, but something like 
>> telling them all the secrets from the previous company might be.
> 
> Really? I didn't know that.
> 


it is not worth it for the company to take you to court and risk loosing 
then having costs awarded against them. I did it once when I was working 
via an agency for Guinness, abroad. Then a couple of months later I went 
to Guinness in London as a contractor directly. The agency were p*issed 
off but they still considered me for other jobs.
> 
> 
> Hmm. So I can't write a contract that says "you have to kill Jewish 
> people" and legally force anyone daft enough to sign the contract to 
> actually do this?

Duh!

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Best Regards,
	Stephen

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