{"id":811,"date":"2013-12-23T15:57:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T15:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/?p=811"},"modified":"2021-12-21T20:04:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:04:40","slug":"gardening-leave-a-safer-alternative-to-an-employee-non-compete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/gardening-leave-a-safer-alternative-to-an-employee-non-compete\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardening leave:  A safer alternative to an employee non-compete?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/attorneys.html?Attorney=Graham\">Christopher Graham<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/attorneys.html?Attorney=Kelly\">Joseph Kelly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/garden31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/garden31-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"garden3[1]\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-812\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/garden31-300x222.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/garden31.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve discussed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/initial-offer-of-employment-by-itself-not-enough-to-make-non-competition-agreement-enforceable\/\">previously<\/a> on this blog, employee non-competition agreements in Illinois can be difficult to enforce; the Illinois Supreme Court in fact recently held that an initial offer of employment for an at-will employee isn&#8217;t enough to make a non-compete enforceable.<\/p>\n<p>Employers may want to consider &#8220;gardening leave&#8221; as an alternative. Common in the United Kingdom, the employee provides a resignation notice and the employer then pays the employee not to work &#8212; for the employer or any other employer &#8212; for an agreed period.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois courts have not addressed &#8220;gardening leave&#8221;, but some lawyers believe courts will look more favorably to a &#8220;gardening leave&#8221; provision than an employee non-compete.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on &#8220;gardening leave&#8221;, see this excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.non-competes.com\/2013\/12\/reflecting-on-garden-leave-and-english.html\">article<\/a> by Kenneth J. Vanko.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tags:<\/strong> Illinois, employment law, non-competition, non-compete, garden leave, gardening leave<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Christopher Graham and Joseph Kelly As we&#8217;ve discussed previously on this blog, employee non-competition agreements in Illinois can be difficult to enforce; the Illinois Supreme Court in fact recently held that an initial offer of employment for an at-will employee isn&#8217;t enough to make a non-compete enforceable. Employers may want to consider &#8220;gardening leave&#8221; [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3166,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/3166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}