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For most people who find themselves suddenly unemployed, the most pressing concern is the reestablishment of an income stream. The easiest way to do that is to find new employment. However, for some dismissed employees there is a challenge: their employment agreement with the dismissing employer contained a provision whereby they agreed not to work for a competing company.
The question raised, and answered by the Alberta Court of Appeal in Globex Foreign Exchange Corporation v. Kelcher, 2011 ABCA 240 (CanLII) is: Is a wrongfully dismissed employee still bound by the provisions of a non-competition agreement?