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Sponsored thought leadership: Non-compete covenants in Philippine employment agreements – current views and future direction

With the global war for talent and ‘star’ employees being branded as assets, non-compete agreements have emerged as a contentious subject for most industries.

Non-compete agreements are employment contracts that limit the ability of an employee to join or start a competing firm after a job separation.1 Parenthetically, these agreements limit the post-employment opportunities of employees within a set industry over a certain period of time.