| Internet Legal Freedom has launched a web site called BreakYourNonCompete.Com. This site offers employees and their lawyers 15 often overlooked and powerful defenses to employers’ enforcement of non-competition agreements in employment contracts, which apply in various situations.
Employers and their law firms should take note as well. If an employer has a particularly critical need to maintain enforceable non-competes the site provides some invaluable material for learning about pitfalls to avoid which may jeopardize the enforceability of the non-competes.
Also available are frequently overlooked defenses and a legal privilege valuable to a new employer who hires someone under a non-compete and then finds itself sued for this conduct.
Among the issues addressed are:
• Can an employer in the private sector make an employee take “comp time” or carry hours from one week to the next and how these facts may relate to breaking a non-compete;
• What if an employee worked “off the clock” and how this too may relate to breaking a non-compete; and
• Are there times when an employee who is sued for breach of a non-compete can actually turn the tables and sue the employer on a frequently overlooked legal theory.
The site offers 54 legal citations that cover accountants, attorneys, doctors, salespersons, hourly workers, salaried employees, professionals, executives, and more. | 
