Why Do the Courts Subject Restrictive Covenants in the Employment

question 52

Multiple Choice

Why do the courts subject restrictive covenants in the employment context to greater scrutiny than those arising in the sale of a business?

• A) because the clauses are typically ambiguous
• B) because there is typically a power balance in employment situations
• C) because such agreements offend human rights legislation
• D) because such clauses violate the Competition Act

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Definitions:

Underextension

A linguistic phenomenon where a child applies a word in a narrower scope than its usual meaning.

Overregularization

Overregularization is a language acquisition phenomenon where children apply regular grammatical rules too widely, leading to errors such as using "goed" instead of "went."

Perceptual Biases

Cognitive biases that impact how we perceive and interpret information from our senses.

Infant Language Development

The process by which infants acquire the capacity to understand and produce spoken language during the first few years of life.