Employees of payroll processor ADP who clicked a box on a company website after reading terms of the company’s stock award program are bound by those terms, which include a noncompete clause, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Tuesday.
The appeals court, which affirmed a U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey judge’s preliminary injunction, rejected the claims of two former employees that the website’s statement that “you must select the checkbox to indicate you have read all associated documents before you can proceed” indicated only that they had read the terms, but had not agreed to be bound by them.
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