Guiding Case No. 184: Ma Xiaonan v. Beijing Sohu Xindongli Information Technology Co., Ltd. (dispute over non-competition),北大法宝V6

Guiding Case No. 184: Ma Xiaonan v. Beijing Sohu Xindongli Information Technology Co., Ltd. (dispute over non-competition)

[CLI Code] CLI.C.419510889(EN) Statement

Court： No. 1 Intermediate People's Court of Beijing Municipality
Instrument Type： Judgment
Source Note：SPC Gazette, Issue 10, 2022 (Total No. 314) Page 19-21
Procedural Status： Trial at Second Instance
Source：Notice by the Supreme People's Court of Issuing the Thirty-Second Group of Guiding Cases
Date Issued：07-04-2022
Judgment Date：08-22-2018
Type of Dispute： Civil > Labor & Employment > Labor Disputes > Labor Contracts > Non-competition

Guiding Case No. 184: Ma Xiaonan v. Beijing Sohu Xindongli Information Technology Co., Ltd. (dispute over non-competition)(Deliberated and adopted by the Judicial Committee of the Supreme People's Court, issued on July 4, 2022)
指导案例184号：马筱楠诉北京搜狐新动力信息技术有限公司竞业限制纠纷案（最高人民法院审判委员会讨论通过2022年7月4日发布）

Where an employer and an employee stipulate in the clause of non-competition that the time limit of applying for arbitration or filing a lawsuit for dispute arising in the performance of the non-competition clause is not included in the time limit of non-competition, such stipulation falls under the circumstance that "an employer disclaims its legal liability or denies the employee's rights" as prescribed in item (2) of paragraph 1 of Article 26 of the Employment Contract Law and shall be determined as invalid.
用人单位与劳动者在竞业限制条款中约定，因履行竞业限制条款发生争议申请仲裁和提起诉讼的期间不计入竞业限制期限的，属于劳动合同法第二十六条第一款第二项规定的“用人单位免除自己的法定责任、排除劳动者权利”的情形，应当认定为无效。