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We would like to inform you that if your inquiry is related to signing a non-competition clause, the following information are important:
Failure to specify time or place regarding the non-competition clause is a matter that makes the employer loses the protection granted to him by the UAE labor law as it stipulated his right to set the non-competition clause, and because the law has stipulated that there shall be a specific time and place, and that the worker shall be at least twenty one years of age.
If there is no time or place for this condition, the employer cannot adhere to the condition of non-competition.
Here is the text of the UAE Labor Law related to your inquiry:
Article 127:
Where the work assigned to a worker allows him to become acquainted with the employer's clients or to have access to his business secrets, the employer may require him to undertake not to compete with him or participate in any enterprise competing with his own, after the termination of his contract. For such an undertaking to be valid, the worker must be at least 21 Gregorian years of age at the time the agreement is concluded, and the agreement must be confined, in terms of time, place and the nature of the business, to the extent necessary to safeguard the employer's legitimate interests.