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From: rgatkinson@watmum.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Who pays for education - knee jerk reactions
Message-ID: <845@watmum.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 11:08:22 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  5 11:08:22 1987
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Reply-To: rgatkinson@watmum.UUCP (Robert Atkinson)
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In article <224@fornax.uucp> chapman@fornax.uucp (John Chapman) writes:

> c) many corporations insist on employees signing agreements to
>    the effect that they will not use skills/knowledge obtained
>    through the company for a certain period after they leave the
>    company's employ.

Come on John.  Get the story straight.  What these sorts of agreements
prevent is the ex-employee using *proprietary information* or company
*trade secrets* when she leaves.  Non-competition contracts are looked
upon very severly by the courts.  In general, an employee's 
general "skills/knowledge" are her's to use as she pleases.
(At least if I remember my intro-to-law courses correctly, this is the case.
Anybody who *really* knows what they are talking about want to comment?)

	-bob atkinson