In today’s highly socially networked world, employees rely on such sites as LinkedIn and Twitter to stay in touch with colleagues and contacts, and to chase down job leads. Use of social media for career development is pervasive, and when combined with the popularity of noncompete and nonsolicitation clauses (even the sandwich makers at Jimmy John’s have them now), legal problems arise.
Companies have called out their former employees for allegedly violating restrictive covenants through what may appear to be benign uses of social media sites. Court results have been mixed, but both companies and their departing workers need to be aware of how a few clicks could lead to litigation.
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