Competition clause in the CR and selected EU Member States

Non-competition clause in the Czech Republic and in chosen states of the European Union Resumé The employee has a duty of faithful service and is obliged not to compete with his employer in the course of their labour relationship. Once the relationship has come to an end, the employer could have interest to protect his business and his proprietary rights, such as a trade secret, a secret process, confidential information or customer connections, since the disclosure of them by his ex-employee could damage his business and his position in the labour market. That is the reason why the contractual parties conclude the non-competition clause (or restrictive covenant) within a contract of employment (or within a special contract) whereby the employee undertakes that he will accept a restraint about where he works and for whom, for a period of time after he has left the employment relationship. Generally the employer has a duty to pay monetary compensation in order to compensate such a restraint of the employee. The purpose of my thesis is primarily to provide readers with the legal background of basic principles related to the employee's duty of loyalty and prohibition of a concurrence in the course of the labour relation with his employer.Furthermore, to outline and describe the legal regulation of the..