Non-Compete, Enforcement Period Provision

Any time during which you violate any of these restrictions will not be counted in determining the time during which the restrictions apply. For example, if you were to comply with the restriction for all except the last four months of the restrictions, and then join a competing business in violation of the restrictions in this agreement and work for that business for a month before court enjoined this violation, then the remaining four months of the restriction would begin when the injunction was issued. The month during which you violate the restrictions would not be included in the time that the restriction is to apply.

Jurisdiction-variance notice (add to every non-compete-related clause used): Non-compete restrictions are void or unenforceable as a matter of state law in California, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Oklahoma, and Washington's near-total ban takes effect June 30, 2027. Several other states (e.g., Illinois, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, Oregon, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.) impose salary thresholds, advance-notice requirements, or other conditions on enforceability. Confirm the current rule in the executive's home state -- and any state where the restriction would be enforced -- before relying on this clause; in a ban state, no drafting choice makes a non-compete enforceable.