Practice question
A senior employee with access to highly sensitive marketing strategies argues that an otherwise reasonable industry-specific restraint is necessarily void because the employer did not pay to teach the employee’s preexisting professional skills. Which is best?
- Prior expertise automatically invalidates every restraint.
- That fact alone is not conclusive; the legitimate confidential-business interest and the restraint’s actual limits remain material.
- Only training receipts can ever show a protectable interest.
- Confidential strategic access is legally irrelevant.
- The employer may therefore prohibit every occupation forever.
Legal references
- Tiu v. Platinum Plans Philippines, G.R. No. 163512, February 28, 2007, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2007/feb2007/gr_163512_2007.html
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