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Kansas Non-Compete Agreement Template

Prevent a person or business from competing with your company by using a Kansas Non-Compete Agreement.

Published November 29, 2022

Non-compete agreements are often used by employers or businesses to prevent workers from taking employment with a competitor or setting up a competing firm for a period of time after leaving work. Non-compete agreements are allowed in Kansas. Courts will enforce non-compete agreements that are reasonably drawn to protect the interest of the employer, and in securing the right of employees to pursue work in an open labor market.

Table of Contents
  • Is a Non-Compete Agreement Legally Enforceable in Kansas?
  • What can be protected?
  • Reasonable Uses and Objections
  • Kansas Non-Compete Limitations:
  • Kansas Non-Compete Agreement Sample

Is a Non-Compete Agreement Legally Enforceable in Kansas?

Kansas has no specific statutes governing non-competition agreements. This does not mean that a Kansas court will decline to enforce a non-compete agreement. Instead, a Kansas court, when presented with a dispute over a non-competition agreement, will examine traditional principles of common law and contract law to determine the validity and enforceability of a non-compete agreement.

In Kansas, non-compete agreements should be narrowly tailored to protect the interests of the employer while still preserving the right of the worker to seek gainful employment in the field. The employer may protect certain interests, such as trade secrets and customer lists or contacts. The employer may also protect an interest in having provided an employee with highly specialized training.

In contrast, Kansas courts have held that general training as part of employment is not a sufficiently strong employer interest to justify a non-compete agreement. General skills obtained while working for an employer are something that an employee can reasonably expect to transfer to another job, without being restricted by a non-compete agreement.

Should a non-compete agreement be found overbroad, courts in Kansas will sometimes seek to salvage the agreement by construing the agreement narrowly, either as to geographic region or scope of time. A Kansas employer might reasonably expect that a narrowly tailored and carefully drafted non-compete agreement will be sustained.

What can be protected?

In Kansas, a court will review a non-compete agreement to ensure that it is reasonable under the circumstances, that it protects a legitimate business interest, that it is reasonable in time and space, and that it neither places any undue burden on the employee nor is injurious to the public interest or welfare. Agreements that place too great a restriction on the employee’s ability to practice their trade will be deemed unenforceable.

Reasonable Uses and Objections

  • Enforceable when terminated without cause? Yes
  • Employee non-solicitation agreement permitted? Yes
  • Customer non-solicitation agreements permitted? Yes
  • Does continuing employment equal sufficient consideration? Yes
  • Statute of Limitation for Breach of Contract: 5 years

Kansas Non-Compete Limitations:

Time limitations:

Kansas courts will uphold “reasonable” time limits. In Weber v. Tillman, 913 P.2d 84, (Kansas, 1996) a two-year limit was upheld as reasonable [1] .

Geographical limitations:

Kansas courts tend to view non-compete agreements with wide geographical restrictions unfavorably and may decline to enforce them.

Other restrictions:

The ability of an employer to limit the employment of accountants through non-compete agreements is restricted.

Kansas Non-Compete Agreement Sample

This example of a Kansas non-compete agreement will let you draft up-to-date agreements for your business clearly, simply, and inexpensively.

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  1. Weber v. Tillman (1996). https://casetext.com/case/weber-v-tillman
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