Non-competes have been null and void in California for some time. Employees can also recover attorney fees if someone tries to enforce one. It’s one of the reasons startups can be started here without fear of persecution by a previous employer.
It’s great to see this become national policy.
Good on them. Noncompete clauses are bullshit and yet another tool to take away workers’ rights.
I’m writing in Lina Khan for president.
I protest voted one year because I hated the candidates. That was the year Trump got elected. I’m never doing that again. Lina’s well worth supporting in the next few elections, but the real options this year are already set. Everything else is equivalent to not voting at all.
Blaming voters for the results of a liberal democracy is like blaming consumers who don’t recycle their plastic for climate change.
Someone’s scared his team isn’t going to win
I’ve had a few of these. Honestly, they’re pretty hard to actually trigger. At least in mine, short of something along the lines of corporate espionage or insider trading, there’s not much in there that’s vague enough to hinder career prospects since, I assume, they’re legally not allowed to. It’s generally been, “You can’t work for another company on this very specific thing you never heard of before starting here and will probably never hear of again, for the next 24 months.”
Haven’t heard of them being misused for retention out in the wild, but I assume they must be enough to cause this.
My last company sued at least two former employees that I know about. The thing with non competes isn’t that the company makes money back by suing. It’s more worth it for them to file suit if the executive’s pride is hurt or if they want to send a message to other employees.
Healthcare, specifically providers, are extremely hampered by these. Imagine working at a hospital in a big city and you must sign a noncompete that blocks you from working at any other hospital system within 50 miles. If you’re a specialist, it’s worse than that because you can’t exactly flex into another role easily.
The last noncompete I signed, I wrote in the margins, in pen, that I was allowed to do anything I wanted so long as it didn’t directly harm the interests of the company I was leaving. They signed it.
At least in mine, short of something along the lines of corporate espionage or insider trading
Normally that would be covered by something like an NDA or Non-Solicitation, rather than a Non-comp - or even just federal law for something like insider trading.
It’s true though, Non-comps are usually unfair and unnecessary and overly restrictive.
Good news. Anything that gives Workers an improvement in power should be fully supported.
NonCompete about to get a huge surge of subscribers.
