Non-compete

[10sacer]

Does anyone have a standard non-compete form to have a subcontractor or vendor sign?

I have another company's installers working for me to complete a big job in a tight schedule that I can't finish by myself.

 

[James Burke]

Does anyone have a standard non-compete form to have a subcontractor or vendor sign?

I have another company's installers working for me to complete a big job in a tight schedule that I can't finish by myself.

I don't understand the question. Essentially, they are employees of a competitor which automatically entitles them to compete with you at any level. I think you're in the market for having an attorney delineate very specific boundaries, which could get expensive.

Did you perhaps mean a non-disclosure? That's a totally different animal.


JB

 

[Pauly]

I don't understand the question. Essentially, they are employees of a competitor which automatically entitles them to compete with you at any level. I think you're in the market for having an attorney delineate very specific boundaries, which could get expensive.

Did you perhaps mean a non-disclosure? That's a totally different animal.


JB

Actually, a non compete agreement is completely normal and reasonable as it protects your company from the subcontractors poaching your client. It's usually for a given amount of time.

This also works if your employee leaves and goes off on their own, it doesn't allow them to go poach your current clients for a specific amount of time.

 

[Gino]

S&W .357 should suffice.

 

[Billct2]

I have never heard of having a sub, like an installer sign a non-compete. Employees yes, but not in this business. From what I have read they are very hard to enforce unless you have the money for a lawyer.
The only instances I know of that it has been used is when selling a business.

 

[rjssigns]

I used to sub out big installs(pylons, boom lift, sub-grade etc..) to another company. They offered to make magnetics with my logo to cover theirs when on site. Never had them do it and I ended up just referring those types of jobs and getting a referral fee.

 

[d fleming]

My state is a right to work state. Non competes aren't worth the paper they are written on. All it is good for is to stop a previous employee from going directly after clients they personally serviced. Normally 2 years. Pest control companies are big on non competes. If they are not involved in sales and the company they now work for goes after your client there is no recourse.