Section 9 General Principles

• Library: Employer-Employee Law 2008

The critical requirement for an enforceable restrictive employment covenant is that the restrictions must be reasonable as to both time and geographic area. Systematic Bus. Servs., Inc. v. Bratten, 162 S.W.3d 41, 49 (Mo. App. W.D. 2005). “Non-compete agreements are enforceable to the extent they can be narrowly tailored geographically and temporally. In addition, such restrictions are not enforceable to protect an employer from mere competition by a former employee, but only to the extent that the restrictions protect the...