The key is disclosing all contracts at the time of the offer. Some unscrupulous employers wait until the first day the employee show up for work after they left a previous job.
In these cases unless you have lots of money in the bank, you have little choice but to sign and live under the restriction.
If I were you, in the future at least, I would be requiring a potential employer to supply me with the contract before I agreed to give notice at my current position. If you are professional about it they will get it and unless they are dodgy they won't have any issue with it. I have had a couple of freelancers I worked with in the past year actually ask me for the agreement in this way and I totally respect that and have no issues with it.
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The key is disclosing all contracts at the time of the offer. Some unscrupulous employers wait until the first day the employee show up for work after they left a previous job.
In these cases unless you have lots of money in the bank, you have little choice but to sign and live under the restriction.
Agreed.
Please, employers, disclose all policies and contracts at the time of the offer.
And please, employees, ask about policies and contracts at the time of the offer.
This is what has happened to me. I start on Monday, and just got this contract yesterday.
If I were you, in the future at least, I would be requiring a potential employer to supply me with the contract before I agreed to give notice at my current position. If you are professional about it they will get it and unless they are dodgy they won't have any issue with it. I have had a couple of freelancers I worked with in the past year actually ask me for the agreement in this way and I totally respect that and have no issues with it.