Non-Solicitation Contract Clauses (1,301)

Non-Solicitation. For a period of three (3) years following the date hereof, you shall not: (a) directly or indirectly attempt to hire, or hire, any person employed by the Company; or (b) directly or indirectly interfere with the Company's relations with any person employed by it.

Non-Solicitation. During the period of your employment with the Company or any of its affiliates, and for a period of months after the cessation of your employment for any reason, whether with or without Cause, you will not, directly or indirectly , on your own behalf or on behalf of any other person, and whether through your own efforts or through the efforts or employing the assistance of any other person (including without limitation any consultant or any person employed by or associated with any person with w...hom you become employed or associated): a) call on or solicit in any manner any customer of the Company or any of its affiliates for the purpose of doing business of the type done by the Company or any of its affiliates with such customer. For purposes of this Agreement, "customer" means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, or other entity or person (i) currently doing business or who has done business with the Company or any of its affiliates in the 12 months prior to the cessation of your employment, or (ii) any prospective customer that you know to be a prospective customer of the Company or any of its affiliates and with whom the Company or any of its affiliates is in discussion with and reasonably expects to do business; or b) Solicit or otherwise induce any employee of the Company or any of its affiliates to leave the employ of the Company or any of its affiliates. To the extent the terms of this Section 18 are less restrictive (from your perspective) than comparable non-solicitation restrictions agreed to by you pursuant to any Option agreement or Restricted Stock agreement dated prior to the date hereof (collectively, the "Prior Agreements"), the terms of this Section 18 shall supersede and replace the comparable non-solicitation provisions in each such Prior Agreement. By accepting and agreeing to the terms of this Agreement, you acknowledge that your receipt of the grant of the Award evidenced by this Agreement represents adequate consideration for the undertaking set forth in this Section 18. 3 19. Revocation of Grant. No later than forty-five (45) days after the Grant Date (the "Acceptance Date"), you must formally accept and agree to the terms and conditions of the Award as set forth in this Agreement. You must do so (a) electronically, if you are directed to do so at the time your Award is formally communicated to you and you receive a copy of this Agreement, or (b) by returning a signed copy of this Agreement to the Executive Rewards Manager in the Human Resources Department, 850 Main Street, BC-03, Bridgeport, CT 06604 so that it is received no later than the close of business on the Acceptance Date. If you do not accept and agree to the terms and conditions of the Award as set forth in this Agreement by the Acceptance Date, the Award evidenced hereby shall be null and void, and shall be deemed to have been revoked, on the first business day following the Acceptance Date. If the 45th day after the Grant Date is not a business day, the Acceptance Date will be the first business day after such 45th day. A business day is any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, or a day on which the Company's banking offices in Connecticut are not scheduled to be open for business. View More

Non-Solicitation. For a term of one year following termination of employment with Corporation or any of its subsidiaries, the Employee will not, directly or indirectly either for himself or any other Person (as defined herein), (i) induce or attempt to induce any employee of the Corporation or its subsidiaries to leave the employ of the Corporation or its subsidiaries, (ii) in any way interfere with the relationship between the Corporation or its subsidiaries and any employee of the Corporation or its subsidiarie...s, (iii) employ, or otherwise engage as an employee, independent contractor, or otherwise, any employee of the Corporation or its subsidiaries, or (iv) induce or attempt to induce any customer, supplier, licensee, or business relation of the Corporation or its subsidiaries to cease doing business with the Corporation or its subsidiaries, or in any way interfere with the relationship between any customer, supplier, licensee, or business relation of the Corporation or its subsidiaries. During the non-solicitation period, and for a term of one year following termination of employment with the Corporation, the Employee will not, directly or indirectly, either for himself or any other Person solicit the business of any Person known to the Employee to be a customer of the Corporation or its subsidiaries, whether or not the Employee had personal contact with such Person, with respect to products or activities which compete in whole or in part with the products or activities of the Corporation or its subsidiaries. For purposes of this Agreement, "Person" shall include an individual, trust, estate, corporation, limited liability corporation, credit union, savings bank, savings and loan association, savings and loan holding corporation, bank, bank holding corporation, mortgage corporation or similar type financial institution, including, without limitation, a de novo financial institution in its organizational phase. View More

Non-Solicitation. From and after the Effective Date, Seller shall not market the Property for sale, or solicit or accept any back-up offers with respect to the sale of the Property.

Non-Solicitation. Executive agrees to continue to follow and comply with the terms and conditions of the Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement.

Non-Solicitation. The Executive agrees that for a period of two (2) years following the date hereof, he will not, either directly or indirectly, for himself or for any third party, employ or hire any other person who is then employed by Bob Evans Restaurants, LLC ("BER"), or solicit, induce, recruit, or cause any other person who is then employed by BER to terminate his/her employment for the purpose of joining, associating, or becoming employed with any other business or activity or to violate any confidentialit...y, non-competition or employment agreement that such person may have with BER or any policy of BER. The Executive further agrees that during the period of his employment, and for a period of two (2) years following the effective date of the termination of the Executive's employment for any reason, he will not, either directly or indirectly, for himself or for any third party, employ or hire any other person who is then employed by the Company, or solicit, induce, recruit, or cause any other person who is then employed by the Company to terminate his/her employment for the purpose of joining, associating, or becoming employed with any other business or activity or to violate any confidentiality, non-competition or employment agreement that such person may have with the Company or any policy of the Company. View More

Non-Solicitation. (a) Grantee hereby acknowledges that the Company's relationship with the customer or customers Grantee serves, and with other employees, is special and unique, based upon the development and maintenance of good will resulting from the customers' and other employees' contacts with the Company and its employees, including Grantee. As a result of Grantee's position and customer contacts, Grantee recognizes that Grantee will gain valuable information about (i) the Company's relationship with its cus...tomers, their buying habits, special needs, and purchasing policies, (ii) the Company's pricing policies, purchasing policies, profit structures, and margin needs, (iii) the skills, capabilities and other employment-related information relating to Company employees, and (iv) and other matters of which Grantee would not otherwise know and that is not otherwise readily available. Such knowledge is essential to the business of the Company and Grantee recognizes that, if Grantee has a Separation from Service, the Company will be required to rebuild that customer relationship to retain the customer's business. Grantee recognizes that during a period following Separation from Service, the Company is entitled to protection from Grantee's use of the information and customer and employee relationships with which Grantee has been entrusted by the Company during Grantee's employment. (b) Grantee acknowledges and agrees that any injury to the Company's customer relationships, or the loss of those relationships, would cause irreparable harm to the Company. Accordingly, Grantee shall not, while employed by the Company and for a period of one year from the date of Grantee's Separation from Service for any reason, including Separation from Service initiated by the Company with or without cause, directly or indirectly, either on Grantee's own behalf or on behalf of any other person, firm or entity, solicit or provide services that are the same as or similar to the services the Company provided or offered while Grantee was employed by the Company to any customer or prospective customer of the Company (i) with whom Grantee had direct contact during the last two years of Grantee's employment with the Company or about whom Grantee learned confidential information as a result of his or her employment with the Company or (ii) with whom any person over whom Grantee had supervisory authority at any time had direct contact during the last two years of Grantee's employment with the Company or about whom such person learned confidential information as a result of his or her employment with the Company. (c) Grantee shall not, while employed by the Company and for a period of two years following Separation from Service Grantee's Separation from Service for any reason, including Separation from Service initiated by the Company with or without cause, either directly or indirectly solicit, induce or encourage any individual who was a Company employee at the time of, or within six months prior to, Grantee's Separation from Service, to terminate their employment with the Company or accept employment with any entity, including but not limited to a competitor, supplier or customer of the Company, nor shall Grantee cooperate with any others in doing or attempting to do so. As used herein, the term "solicit, induce or encourage" includes, but is not limited to, (i) initiating communications with a Company employee relating to possible employment, (ii) offering bonuses or other compensation to encourage a Company employee to terminate his or her employment with the Company and accept employment with any entity, including but not limited to a competitor, supplier or customer of the Company, or (iii) referring Company employees to personnel or agents employed by any entity, including but not limited to competitors, suppliers or customers of the Company. View More

Non-Solicitation. Employee acknowledges and confirms that he is bound, and will continue to be bound, by Paragraphs 6.4 and 6.5 of his 2011 Employment Agreement and agrees that such provision survives his termination and the execution of this Agreement. Employee agrees that for a period of one (1) year after the Separation Date, Employee will not, directly or indirectly through any other Person (a) induce or attempt to induce any employee or independent contractor of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company to... leave the employ or service, as applicable, of the Company or such Affiliate, or in any way interfere with the relationship between the Company or any such Affiliate, on the one hand, and any employee or independent contractor thereof, on the other hand; (ii) hire any person who was an employee of the Company or an Affiliate of the Company until twelve months after such individual's employment relationship with the Company or such Affiliate has been terminated; (iii) influence or attempt to influence customers, vendors, suppliers, licensors, lessors, joint venturers, associates, consultants, agents or partners of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company to divert their business away from the Company or any such Affiliate; or (iv) otherwise interfere with, disrupt or attempt to disrupt the business relationships, contractual or otherwise, between the Company or any Affiliate of the Company, on the one hand, and any of its or their customers, suppliers, licensors, lessors, joint venturers, associates, officers, employees, consultants, managers, partners, members or investors, on the other hand. View More

Non-Solicitation. a. Consultant acknowledges and recognizes the highly competitive nature of the busi­ness of the Company and that he provides essential and unique services to the Company. Accordingly, despite that the terms contained herein may limit Consultant's ability to engage in certain business pursuits during the Restricted Period (as defined above), Consultant hereby agrees as follows: During the Restricted Period (as defined above), Consultant will not, whether on Consultant's own behalf or on behalf of... or in conjunction with any Person (as defined above): (i) directly or indirectly solicit or encourage any employee of the Company to leave the engagement of the Company; or enter into an employment agreement or independent contractor agreement with any such employee; (ii) directly or indirectly, encourage any consultant then under contract with the Company to cease to work with the Company; (iii) directly or indirectly, encourage any of the Company's customers or suppliers to cease doing business or reduce the amount of business it does with the Company. b. It is expressly understood and agreed that although Consultant and the Company consider the restrictions contained in this Paragraph 9 to be reasonable, if a final determination is made by an arbitrator or arbitrators, or by a court of competent jurisdiction that the time or territory or any other restriction contained in this Agreement is an unenforceable restriction against Consultant, the provisions of this Agreement shall not be rendered void, but shall be deemed amended to apply as to such maximum time and terri­tory and to such maximum extent as such court may judicially determine or indicate to be enforceable. Alternatively, if any court of competent jurisdiction finds that any restric­tion contained in this Agreement is unenforceable, and such restriction cannot be amended so as to make it enforceable, such finding shall not affect the enforceability of any of the other restrictions contained herein. View More

Non-Solicitation. 10.1. Nonsolicitation of Customers or Prospects. Executive acknowledges that information about Company's customers and business methods is confidential and constitutes trade secrets. Accordingly, Executive agrees that during the term of this Agreement and for a period of two (2) years after the termination of this Agreement, Executive will not, either directly or indirectly, separately or in association with others, interfere with, impair, disrupt or damage Company's relationship with any of its... customers or customer prospects by soliciting or encouraging others to solicit any of them for the purpose of diverting or taking away business from Company. 10.2. Nonsolicitation of Company's Employees. Executive agrees that during the term of this Agreement and for a period of two (2) years after the termination of this Agreement, Executive will not, either directly or indirectly, separately or in association with others, interfere with, impair, disrupt or damage Company's business by soliciting, encouraging or attempting to hire any of Company's employees or causing others to solicit or encourage any of Company's employees to discontinue their employment with Company. View More