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Explain how a non-competition clause in a contract effects business. Would there be any legal justification to violate the terms of a non-competition clause?

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Explain how a non-competition clause in a contract effects business. Would there be any legal justification to violate the terms of a non-competition clause?

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In theory, a non-competition clause is supposed to help a business by making sure that an employee does not take the skills he learned from the business on the businesses dime and use it for his own personal benefit or for the benefit of another company by quitting and going to work elsewhere. However, ...

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