The Law at Work: Promise not to compete against current employer enforceable
California Business & Professions Code section 16600 generally makes non-compete agreements unenforceable in this state. The California Court of Appeal, however, recently admonished those who would use that section as a shield to compete with their current, as opposed to former, employer that “section 16600 is not an invitation to employees to bite the hand that feeds them.” In his The Law at Work column in the San Diego Union-Tribune, Shareholder Dan Eaton examines the case of Techno Lite, Inc. v. EmCod, LLC.
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