Covenants Not to Solicit or Hire Employees Sample Clauses

Covenants Not to Solicit or Hire Employees. It is recognized and understood by the Company and the Employee that the employees of the Company are an integral part of its business and that it is extremely important for the Company to use its maximum efforts to prevent it from losing such employees. It is therefore understood and agreed by both parties that, because of the nature of the Company’s business, it is necessary to afford fair protection to the Company from the loss of such employees. Consequently, as a material inducement to the Company to enter into this Agreement and to continue to employ the Employee, the Employee covenants and agrees that, for the period commencing on the date of Employee’s termination of employment for any reason whatsoever and ending one (1) year after the Employee’s termination of employment with the Company, the Employee shall not, directly or indirectly, hire or engage or attempt to hire or engage, or communicate for business purposes with any individual who shall have been an employee of the Company at any time during the one (1) year period prior to the date of the Employee’s termination of employment with the Company, whether for or on behalf of the Company or for any entity in which the Employee shall have a direct or indirect interest (or any subsidiary or affiliate of any such entity), whether as a proprietor, partner, co-venturer, financier, investor, or stockholder, director, officer, employer, employee, servant, agent, representative, or otherwise.
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Covenants Not to Solicit or Hire Employees. It is recognized and understood by the Company and the Executive that the employees of the Company are an integral part of its business and that it is extremely important for the Company to use its maximum efforts to prevent it from losing such employees. It is therefore understood and agreed by both parties that, because of the nature of the Company’s business, it is necessary to afford fair protection to the Company from the loss of such employees. Consequently, as a material inducement to the Company to enter into this Agreement and to continue to employ the Executive, the Executive covenants and agrees that, for the period commencing on the date of Executive’s termination of employment for any reason whatsoever and ending one (1) year after the Executive’s termination of employment with the Company, the Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, hire or engage or attempt to hire or engage, or communicate for business purposes with any individual who shall have been an employee of the Company at any time during the one (1) year period prior to the date of the Executive’s termination of employment with the Company, whether for or on behalf of the Company or for any entity in which the Executive shall have a direct or indirect interest (or any subsidiary or affiliate of any such entity), whether as a proprietor, partner, co-venturer, financier, investor, or stockholder, director, officer, employer, employee, servant, agent, representative, or otherwise.
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Related to Covenants Not to Solicit or Hire Employees

  • Covenant Not to Solicit Employees The Executive agrees not to solicit the services of any officer or employee of the Employer for one year after the Executive’s employment termination.

  • Covenants Not to Compete and Not to Solicit In the event of the Executive's Termination of Employment, the Company's obligations to provide the payments and benefits set forth in Section 2 shall be expressly conditioned upon the Executive's compliance with the covenants not to compete and not to solicit as provided herein. In the event the Executive breaches his obligations to the Company as provided herein, the Company's obligations to provide the payments and benefits set forth in Section 2 shall cease, without prejudice to any other remedies that may be available to the Company.

  • No Solicitation or Hiring of Employees During the Non-Compete Period, the Executive shall not solicit, entice, persuade or induce any individual who is employed by the Company or the Company Affiliates (or who was so employed within twelve (12) months prior to the Executive’s action) to terminate or refrain from continuing such employment or to become employed by or enter into contractual relations with any other individual or entity other than the Company or the Company Affiliates, and the Executive shall not hire, directly or indirectly, for himself or any other person, as an employee, consultant or otherwise, any such person. Anything to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company agrees that (i) the Executive’s responding to an unsolicited request from any former employee of the Company for advice on employment matters; and (ii) the Executive’s responding to an unsolicited request for an employment reference regarding any former employee of the Company from such former employee, or from a third party, by providing a reference setting forth his personal views about such former employee, shall not be deemed a violation of this Section 7(c); in each case, to the extent the Executive does not encourage the former employee to become employed by a company or business that employs the Executive or with which the Executive is otherwise associated (including, but not limited to, association as a sole proprietor, owner, employer, partner, principal, investor, joint venturer, shareholder, associate, employee, member, consultant, contractor, director or otherwise).

  • Covenant Not to Solicit If the Executive is receiving payments and benefits under Section 2 above (or subsequently becomes entitled thereto because of a termination described in Section 2(a)(ii)), then, for a period of two (2) years following the Executive’s Termination Date, the Executive shall not: (i) solicit, encourage or take any other action which is intended to induce any other employee of the Company to terminate his employment with the Company; or (ii) interfere in any manner with the contractual or employment relationship between the Company and any such employee of the Company. The foregoing shall not prohibit the Executive or any entity with which the Executive may be affiliated from hiring a former employee of the Company; provided, that such hiring results exclusively from such former employee’s affirmative response to a general recruitment effort.

  • Agreement Not to Solicit Employees Executive agrees that during Executive’s employment with the Company hereunder and during the Non-Solicitation Period, Executive will not, either directly or indirectly, on Executive’s own behalf or in the service or on the behalf of others solicit, divert, or hire away, or attempt to solicit, divert, or hire away any person then employed by the Company, nor encourage anyone to leave the Company’s employ. The Non-Solicitation Period set forth in this Section 11.5 shall be tolled during any period in which the Executive is in breach of the restriction set forth herein.

  • Covenant Not to Compete; Non-Solicitation Executive acknowledges and recognizes the highly competitive nature of the Company’s Business and the goodwill and business strategy of the Company constitute a substantial asset of the Company. Executive further acknowledges and recognizes that during the course of the Executive’s employment Executive will receive specific knowledge of the Company’s Business, access to trade secrets and Confidential Information (as hereinafter defined), participate in business acquisitions and decisions, and that it would be impossible for Executive to work for a competitor without using and divulging this valuable Confidential Information. Executive further acknowledges that this covenant not to compete is an independent covenant within this Agreement. This covenant shall survive this Agreement and shall be treated as an independent covenant for the purposes of enforcement. Executive agrees to the following:

  • Nonsolicitation of Company’s Employees Executive agrees that during the term of this Agreement and for a period of one (1) year 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.

  • Covenant Not to Solicit Customers During the Restricted Period, within the Territory Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, individually or on behalf of any other person or entity (other than a member of the Bank Group), offer to provide banking services to any person, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or other entity who is or was (i) a customer of any member of the Bank Group during any part of the twelve (12) month period immediately prior to the Date of Termination, or (ii) a potential customer to whom any member of the Bank Group offered to provide banking services during any part of the twelve (12) month period immediately prior to the Date of Termination.

  • No Solicitation of Employees In partial consideration for the award of these Units, in order to forestall the disclosure or use of Confidential Information, as well as to deter the Grantee’s intentional interference with the contractual relations of the Company or any Affiliated Company, the Grantee’s intentional interference with prospective economic advantage of the Company or any Affiliated Company, and to promote fair competition, the Grantee agrees that the Grantee’s right to receive the Shares upon settlement of the Units is contingent upon the Grantee refraining, during the Period of Restriction and for a period of one (1) year after the Settlement Date, for himself/herself or any third party, directly or indirectly, from soliciting for employment any person employed by the Company, or by any Affiliated Company, during the period of the solicited person’s employment and for a period of one (1) year after the termination of the solicited person’s employment with the Company or any Affiliated Company (collectively “Solicit”). If, during the term of the Period of Restriction or at any time within one (1) year after the Settlement Date, the Grantee breaches his/her obligation not to Solicit, the Grantee’s right to the Shares upon settlement of the Units shall not have been earned and the Units, whether vested or not, will be immediately cancelled, and the Grantee shall immediately return to the Company the Shares issued in settlement of the Units or the pre-tax income derived from any disposition of such Shares. THE GRANTEE UNDERSTANDS THAT THIS PARAGRAPH IS NOT INTENDED TO AND DOES NOT PROHIBIT THE CONDUCT DESCRIBED, BUT PROVIDES FOR THE CANCELLATION OF THE UNITS AND A RETURN TO THE COMPANY OF THE SHARES OR THE GROSS TAXABLE PROCEEDS OF THE SHARES IF THE GRANTEE SHOULD CHOOSE TO VIOLATE THIS NON-SOLICITATION OF EMPLOYEES PROVISION DURING THE PERIOD OF RESTRICTION OR WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE SETTLEMENT DATE.

  • Solicitation of Employees I agree that for a period of twelve (12) months immediately following the termination of my relationship with the Company for any reason, whether with or without cause, I shall not either directly or indirectly solicit, induce, recruit or encourage any of the Company’s employees to leave their employment, or take away such employees, or attempt to solicit, induce, recruit, encourage or take away employees of the Company, either for myself or for any other person or entity.

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