Help Wanted: Noncompete pact has limits
Quick ReadHow long can one noncompete contract stay in effect, especially when the employee leaves and returns to the same company.
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Carrie Mason-Draffen
Carrie Mason-Draffen Mason-Draffen, a business reporter, writes a column about workplace issues.
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DEAR CARRIE: In 1987 I signed an employment agreement between myself and a corporation that included a three-year, noncompete clause. In 1995 I left the corporation to have a baby. Several months afterwards, I went back to work part-time but at a different company. When the employer I had signed the contract with heard I was working again, it made me an offer. I returned eight to 10 months after...
