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It's legal to put clauses in contracts, but employment tribunals almost invariably strike them down. Unless something clearly nefarious is going on, they are utterly unenforceable.



IANAL but this looks to me (sorry, in Spanish) like an example of one that was enforced without anything particularly nefarious, and included the employee having to return the compensation and pay an additional amount for damages on top of that. https://cdn.cuestioneslaborales.es/wp-content/uploads/2014/1...


It varies country by country. The major ones tend to side with workers - unless the contract explicitly compensates for the clause: https://www.internationallaborlaw.com/files/2012/10/Drafting...

I don’t know what your Spanish dude did. Most of the generic cut-and-paste clauses you find around are utterly unenforceable.




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