Shaffer, an employee of Home Paramount Pest Control (Home), signed an agreement

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Shaffer, an employee of Home Paramount Pest Control (Home), signed an agreement with a provision that prevented him from working or being involved in an manner in any business involving pest control, in any city or county in the state in which he worked for two years after his employment with Home ceased. Six months later, he resigned and soon started working for another pest control company. Home sued for breach of contract. Shaffer said the noncompetition agreement was overbroad and therefore unenforceable. Is he correct? Explain.

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Shaffer action to join another company having business of pest control is not correct because he had signed the non competition agreement which prevented him from working or being involved in any manner in any business invoving pest control in any city or country in the state in which he worked for a period of two years after his employment with Home ceased.

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