How it Works4 mins ago
Employment law
8 Answers
Is it legal for former employees of a company who start their own business, allowed to state their years of experience in their advertisement even though it's a new company?
Answers
Best Answer
No best answer has yet been selected by shigatsuhana. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.
For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.All of these answers are what I thought, but I work in a solicitor's office and was told that this was a much more complicated issue. I didn't see how it would make any difference. Experience is experience no matter where you get it. I just wondered if there was some type of law about this. The only thing I could have thought of was what was in the employer's contract that may stipulate what would be allowed after severing ties.
I have xx years of experience in my career.
Gained from several employers and employer paid for training courses. However I state skills on my CV gained during my career.
Dont see the issue to be honest.
Even the Prime Minister will use his wealth of experiences gained in the job , to sell his lecture tours when he quits/retires or whatever.
Gained from several employers and employer paid for training courses. However I state skills on my CV gained during my career.
Dont see the issue to be honest.
Even the Prime Minister will use his wealth of experiences gained in the job , to sell his lecture tours when he quits/retires or whatever.
Merely talking of experience is fine. Being specific about where you got it can be a problem. Your guess about terms of severance is right. Some contracts have a term whereby the ex-employee is not to open up in competition with the ex-employer.Obviously there has to be some limit on the extent of the prohibition, it has to be reasonable. That's where the fun starts. A hairdresser Y employs a stylist X. Some customers want only that stylist. The stylist leaves. The stylist then advertises everywhere in the hairdresser's area that " I am X , the stylist formerly with the hairdresser Y for 15 years and am now going on my own. I'll be happy to welcome customers, old and new" Now you have possible litigation invoking the terms of the ex-employee's severance. This is likely the kind of problem that the solicitors staff are thinking of.