The Non-Compete Clause is the standard clause used by employers in UAE to prevent their employees from joining another competitor after resigning from their positions in the employer business, to prevent the resigned employee from luring current employer clients to the competitor as the employee is actively engaged with those clients and may have a strong relationship with the clients, the period of non-compete serve the purpose of cutting this active relationship. Nour Attorneys’ observations from the hundreds of agreements we have reviewed for employers and employees are that the non-compete clause is invalid because the employers tried to have a broader scope for competition prevention to cover all UAE or specific industries in the UAE, or missing specific requirements under the law, or the clause has been drafted in general without detailing the legal requirements at all.
