“Garden leave” or “gardening leave” is the practice of requiring an employee not to attend the employer’s premises for work during their contractual notice period. Instead, the employee is paid his or her full contractual salary to stay at home. The practice is often used where a senior or key employee resigns in order to join a competitor, sometimes in conjunction with a non-compete clause.
Garden leave
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The power to put a senior executive or a highly skilled employee on garden leave is often exercised by employers...
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Be armed with contractual provisions in order to protect business interests when losing employees to competitors
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Employers must word contracts carefully to allow them to sack staff instantly for failing to meet set standards
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Recruiting teams from rivals is often the only realistic way of resourcing fast-growing operations. But there are many practical factors to consider, warns Sam Whitaker
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