Cleaning service employer makes employees sign a document
Hi everyone, I have a question I need help with.
My wife is employed by a cleaning business and she has worked there for 8 months now, this business employs no full time people but many casual, part time , on call women etc.
We recently registered our own business in the same industry, as my wife is well known and has a lot of contacts etc, and after we done all the hard work of setting up, my wife'just remembered' that her employer asked her to sign a document, referring to starting , or doing her own 'private work whilst employed for the 'other business.
Our problem is that this other business is for sale and the current owner is moving on in 2 months, whether business is sold or not, if it is not sold she will have some one manage it until sold.
My wife does not know what was in document as she can't remember, and she was not given a copy.
We are trying to figure out how we can obtain a copy for our legal people to look at this document... to see what was written in it.
The business we registered etc is in my wife's name, and one solution is we sign it up, re/new details so it is in my name(husband)?
As we figure that no matter what she signed, she can not sign on MY behalf?
To say I would not start my own, does my theory sound right?
OR how can I obtain a copy of this document without bieng obvious' that we may be starting our own, as my wife still works there and does not want to be obvious as to what she is doing.
I will appreciate any help, as this is very frustrating, and we need some guidance.
Kind regards Mike.