Departing Employees: Are Your Organization’s Restrictive Covenants Enforcable?
Employers will often include restrictive covenant clauses in their employment agreements in order to protect their business interests in the event of an employee’s departure from employment. While restrictive covenants can be effective in protecting an organization’s interests, courts often deem such covenants unenforceable because they are overly broad, unenforceable or ambiguous. The Supreme Court […]
The Ashley Madison Leak – Part One of Two: Breach of Confidentiality
As you have undoubtedly heard, the confidential user data of extramarital dating site Ashley Madison was recently leaked. The data leak, which included users’ personal emails and credit card information, has resulted in a class-action lawsuit against Avid Life Media (the Toronto-based parent company of Ashley Madison) and possible links to hate crimes, extortion and […]