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	<description>By Massachusetts Employment Lawyer Jack Merrill</description>
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		<title>Enforcing Noncompetion Agreements against Independent Contractors may be Problematic for Employers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if employers don&#8217;t have enough to worry about when they try to enforce noncompetition agrreements against their former employers, some are discovering that things get even trickier when they look to do so against workers who were arguably misclassified as independent contractors. In addition to the normal hurdles &#8212; including proving that a valid contract [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can my old boss sue me based on a confidentiality agreement?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Additional Information: I recently left my job at an IT company to start my own business. My old boss says he will sue me if I open a business in Massachusetts because that would violate the confidentiality agreement in my old one year contract. I&#8217;ve read the old contract and I don&#8217;t see how that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legislature Considers Bill to Manage Non-Competition Agreements</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the failure of a 2009 initiative to ban the enforcement of non-competition agreements, the Massachusetts legislature is now considering a bill to limit their applicability. The bill now winding its way through the legislative process would require, among other things, that non-compete agreemetns: 1.  Be written in a stand-alone format that both employer and employee [...]]]></description>
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