Indirect advertising becomes a little blurry. This can mean a variety of things. Example: a non-demand agreement is more specific. It tries to prevent someone from hiring or taking clients. The same time and acreage constraints would apply. Jill may also need to sign a non-invitation agreement, in which it is agreed not to take kartun employees or their customers for five years and within a 400 mile radius. The most common problem with non-call agreements is that, if they are not “reasonable” (as defined on a case-by-case basis), they can be considered trade restrictions. In other words, the agreement inappropriately prevents someone from doing business. Employers who enter into non-poaching agreements with their competitors continue to risk civil and criminal liability for cartels and abuse of dominance. In addition, employers who have contractual non-employment or non-recruitment agreements with their employees run the risk that these provisions will be found to be unenforceable. For employers, especially those in Indiana, it is essential to review these agreements and, if necessary, update them. Many companies require senior executives and executives to sign non-demand agreements.

They may not require lower level employees to sign. Social media offers another challenge for non-demand because of how everyone sticks to everyone else. On sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, friends and followers can immediately find out when an employee has a new job, and they can decide to change jobs. Most of the time, the courts believe that public announcements and public messages are not considered communication or invitations, but the messages addressed are both public and private. But it also depends on the content of the information. Promoting a new position or business for the general public becomes really blurred. Is this an indirect invitation? Not everyone has the right to advertise? What about social media? Can you announce your new location on Facebook or LinkedIn without launching a lawsuit? Imagine, for example, that you are a high-level salesman of a company that sells copper wire. Through your work, you have spoken to copper yarn buyers around the world. One day, another copper yarn seller offers you a better job and you accept. If your employment contract with your first job has a non-formal notice agreement, you cannot go to copper wire buyers and ask them to switch suppliers because you have changed employers.

It`s the same if you do your business.