It’s very hard for your employer to claim a spoken agreement includes a restriction on who you can work for. Bring your contract with you if you come to an appointment. If you’re not sure about something in your contract, contact your nearest Citizens Advice for help. You can work for whoever you like if there are no restrictions in any documents you’ve agreed to This includes restrictions in any other documents you’ve signed, such as a deal to settle a dispute with your employer. You’ll usually have to follow restrictions like these if they’re written in your contract. Restrictions like this could be under a heading that says ‘restrictive covenants’ or ‘post-termination restrictions’. It should also say how long the restriction lasts - usually 3 to 6 months. Look in your contract or terms and conditions of work for wording like ‘You can’t work for a competing business if it’s less than 10 miles away’.
If there’s nothing in your contract you can take any job you like. Your contract might restrict what work you can do next, but your employer can only do this if it’s needed to protect their business. Your employer might want to limit what work you do next if you could take their customers or if you know confidential information.
They could also say you can’t set up a business that competes with theirs. When you leave a job some employers will say you can’t work for a similar business for a certain amount of time.
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