Lawmaker suggests including non-competition clause in individual work contract

An MP proposed that the employer and the employee should negotiate a non-competition clause when signing the individual work contract, whereby the employee will promise not to provide a service that will be in competition with the service provided to the former employer. Instead, he will get a monthly allowance that the employer will pay throughout the non-competition period, Info-Prim Neo reports. Bill author Petru Stirbate said the non-competition allowance is negotiated and represents at least 50% of the gross average salary incomes of the employee in the last six months preceding the date when the individual work contract was terminated. The non-competition clause can produce effects for a period of at most two years of the termination of the contract. If the clause is not respected, the salary earner can be obliged to pay back the allowance and to compensate for the damage caused to the employer. According to the lawmaker, such clauses are used in many European countries.