In the world of employment law, one of the most common misconceptions is that, in California, employees move freely between jobs in complete disregard of the concerns that might restrict them elsewhere.\u00a0 However, even in California\u2019s supposedly laissez-faire employment landscape, employees who do not manage their moves carefully can find themselves unemployed and in legal trouble.<\/p>\n
Consider the predicament of former \u201cstar\u201d Uber engineer, Anthony Levandowski.\u00a0 On May 30, 2017, the New York Times<\/em> reported that Uber had fired Mr. Levandowski, who was accused of stealing trade secrets from his former employer, Google.\u00a0 Google sibling company, Waymo, was suing Uber, alleging among other things that Uber was using those allegedly stolen trade secrets.\u00a0 The United States District Court for the Northern District of California had ordered Uber not only to limit Mr. Levandowski\u2019s role in the company, but also to do what it could to ensure the return of Google files.\u00a0 Asserting that Mr. Levandowski had not followed its instruction to assist in complying with the Court\u2019s order, Uber terminated his employment.\u00a0 Even in California\u2026<\/p>\n To avoid litigation and minimize liability, new employers are increasingly conditioning initial and continued employment on a \u201cclean and complete\u201d departure from prior employment.\u00a0 For example, new employers are requiring new employees to warrant, inter alia<\/em>, that:<\/p>\n Given this shifting and sharing of legal risk, it is incumbent upon transitioning employees to take appropriate steps to protect themselves. \u00a0Here are some tips on how to do this:<\/p>\n In the world of employment law, one of the most common misconceptions is that, in California, employees move freely between jobs in complete disregard of the concerns that might restrict them elsewhere.\u00a0 However, even in California\u2019s supposedly laissez-faire employment landscape, employees who do not manage their moves carefully can find themselves unemployed and in legal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":59,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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