INTERVIEW – SAfm: Lenja Dahms-Jansen on whether employers can enforce ‘restraint of trade’ conditions on ex-employees

A restraint of trade clause is commonly misunderstood as a wholesale prohibition on employees from engaging in any professional business. However, what it intends to do is to guard against unfair competition in the marketplace and the employee using information as a springboard into their next role post-termination. Employment and Benefits partner, Lenja Dahms-Jansen, discusses whether employers can enforce restraint of trade conditions on ex-employees.