On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 04:44:26PM +0100, Struan Donald wrote:
> * at 19/06 16:13 +0100 Robert Thompson said:
> > Oh that's all right - we don't trust our employees integrity either...
> > 13: Activities during employment
> > You will not during your employment, except with the written consent of the
> > Company, be directly or indirectly engaged, concerned or interested in any
> > other trade, business or occupation.
> <snip/>
> > I know that other companies probably have something similar.... but here I
> > get the feeling that they might actually make use of it...
> we have one of those although it does have a caveat about no more than
> 5% holding or some such ISTR. naturally the we own all your IP bit is
> even more all encompasing and vaugue :(
I was having this discussion with my housemate last night. I feel that
given my company pay me to code, then it is totally reasonable that they
own the code that I produce for the hours they pay me.
The question comes about the out of hours work, and your *ideas*.
I'd be surprised if the clauses about looking for work (given the way it's
phrased) would stand up in an industrial tribunal, although I can see their
point from the moonlighting. Interestingly, I don't know if my company know
that I'm running a server, and get a small income from that... They do know
about me being a 5% stakeholder in my last company, though.
With respect to the first part again, I think that the part that the
companies have a right to is *the implementation of the idea that you write
for them*. If you have an idea for something, and code it in your own time,
then I don't see that they could possibly (even under the contract) lay
claim to it, as it would probably come under the Unfair Contracts
legislation)
MBM
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