1A broad post-employment restraint preventing any participation in a 'Restricted Business' may go beyond the protection of the former employer's legitimate business interests where the employee's actual role was limited to a narrow product range and territory, and the overlap between the former and new employer's businesses is modest.
2On the balance of convenience, the court weighed the respondent's status as principal breadwinner, the difficulty of calculating commission-based damages, the fact that the former employer's customers were already being serviced by other representatives, and the availability of narrower non-solicitation undertakings as adequate protection.
Case Details
Citation[2026] QSC 174
CourtQSC
JurisdictionQueensland
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