{"id":1093,"date":"2016-06-19T22:14:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T21:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.all-right.nl\/?p=1093&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2016-06-20T11:17:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T10:17:22","slug":"penalty-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-right.nl\/en\/penalty-clause\/","title":{"rendered":"Penalty clause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is possible to attach a penalty to violation of certain articles of an employment agreement. In practice, a penalty is often attached to violation of a confidentiality, ancillary activities, and\/or a non-competition clause.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A penalty clause must be agreed upon in writing.<\/p>\n<p>It is important that a penalty clause is worded in such a way that it is clear that it concerns a choice between a penalty and claiming damages.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible that a court will mitigate a penalty in legal proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is possible to attach a penalty to violation of certain articles of an employment agreement. In practice, a penalty is often attached to violation of a confidentiality, ancillary activities, and\/or a non-competition clause. &nbsp; A penalty clause must be agreed upon in writing. It is important that a penalty clause is worded in such&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,9],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knowledge-base","category-uncategorized","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-right.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-right.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-right.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-right.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-right.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-right.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-right.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-right.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-right.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-right.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-right.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}