Employment law

[shigatsuhana]

Is it legal for former employees of a company who start their own business, allowed to state their years of experience in their advertisement even though it's a new company?

[Postdog]

Experience is experience isn't it? You either have it, or you don't, doesn't matter how you got it.

[Ethel]

It certainly is. The experience is theirs after all.

[randyraven]

I think your employer should own your experience.
The goverment should be able to remove your experience with force , if you use your mind for your own gain.

Maybe NuLabour should tax us on experience.
It's is an assett you use for financial gain :-)

[buildersmate]

The only thing they couldn't do is claim that the BUSINESS has been running for that length of experience.

[Thunderchild]

just claim you have x years experience no one can take that away from you or deny you have it, most experienced people didn't have their own company from day one

[shigatsuhana]

All of these answers are what I thought, but I work in a solicitor's office and was told that this was a much more complicated issue. I didn't see how it would make any difference. Experience is experience no matter where you get it. I just wondered if there was some type of law about this. The only thing I could have thought of was what was in the employer's contract that may stipulate what would be allowed after severing ties.

[randyraven]

I have xx years of experience in my career.
Gained from several employers and employer paid for training courses. However I state skills on my CV gained during my career.
Dont see the issue to be honest.

Even the Prime Minister will use his wealth of experiences gained in the job , to sell his lecture tours when he quits/retires or whatever.

[fredpuli47]

Merely talking of experience is fine. Being specific about where you got it can be a problem. Your guess about terms of severance is right. Some contracts have a term whereby the ex-employee is not to open up in competition with the ex-employer.Obviously there has to be some limit on the extent of the prohibition, it has to be reasonable. That's where the fun starts. A hairdresser Y employs a stylist X. Some customers want only that stylist. The stylist leaves. The stylist then advertises everywhere in the hairdresser's area that " I am X , the stylist formerly with the hairdresser Y for 15 years and am now going on my own. I'll be happy to welcome customers, old and new" Now you have possible litigation invoking the terms of the ex-employee's severance. This is likely the kind of problem that the solicitors staff are thinking of.