A New Ruling Bans Non-Compete Clauses In Job Offers!
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- A New Ruling Bans Non-Compete Clauses In Job Offers! It looks like stifling non-compete agreements may be a thing of the past in job offers. This should be welcome news to job seekers who have been limited by unfair agreements that keep them from finding work they are well qualified for.
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Bro ur a recruiter.
This is like a slaveowner coaching his slaves on how to get tortured less.
Good day, I don't know if you have any insight or what it could mean? I got my final interviewed 2weeks ago, and I didn't get any feedback, hence I chose to reach out to the recruiter and I was told the hiring team were yet to make a decision but they were very interested in my candidacy. The recruiter shared with me a prospective employees benefits package for my review. What could this mean pls. Any insight?
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Non-compete clauses were used as trapdoors to legally harass and intimidate employees. And in the vast majority of cases, they were totally inappropriate. And if your work was so sensitive and critical to the company, you probably were not compensated at a commensurate level if your job was so important to justify a non-compete clause.
At one company I worked at they had even very junior positions sign the non-compete agreement even though there was probably little of value that they could tell a competitor about how things were run.
Perfect explanation. In Oregon when I resigned after 18 years after catching the CEO committing a felony, they were allowed to steal all earned unpaid income and investment in the company that totaled over $5 million dollars. They then started the defamation that blacklisted me and others nationwide forever in our field.
The bare minimum is that non-compete clauses should be illegal when someone is fired or laid off. It’s the professional equivalent of “I’m breaking up with you, but I don’t want you to date anyone else.”
Exactly 💯
😂😂😂 Exactly
Non compete should always be legal... as long as the company keep paying the same wage for the same duration as the non-compete.
Never obeyed a non-compete clause. You want to hold me hostage, you'll be paying me while I wait.
Exactly - if there is a 2 year non-compete clause, that employer had better pay for those 2 years.
“Hostage” is the operative word. Exactly! 👍🏻
Unfortunately that is not the case. I left a 40k a year job to a 150k a year job. Unfortunately my former employer that I gave 20 years of my life to who at a time were like family sued me and I lost the best job I have ever had.
@@tjlambaes how do you suppose they found out?
@@TheEric1203 they knew I was going there because the used another former employees credentials to log into his personal Apple messages on a computer they let him use. My last day I had an honest conversation with the owners son who I had known since he was 8 years old. I told him how hard I was struggling financially and that I needed this. That day he told me he wouldn’t come after me legally but I suppose his father felt differently. That next day they sent a letter to my new employer asking them to fire me.
I worked for a call center that wanted to implement non compete agreements. I was told it was a condition of employment. Turns out a very big company was building a call center in my town and was offering a much more generous pay package.
I asked if they wanted two weeks notice or would I be immediately terminated if I refused to sign. It was immediate, so I packed up my desk and left. I got a job at the new call center and a 50% pay increase. So it worked out in the end.
Nice
That is what I am talking about!!👏🏾👏🏾
Normally, you don’t quit until you have a job offer in hand but you did what was required in the situation.
Hopefully it was a competitor, ha-ha-ha-ha.
They should also ban positing ghost jobs, ban entry levels asking for years of experience, ban junior roles jobs with senior job description, they also should audit every job posting and the company should be required to send a report of who and how quickly and with that salary was hired for every job posting that the company published. There should be monitoring organs created in every country to control jobs posting -hiring.
Yes indeed. 🙌
Yes. And yes, all of this bullshit needs to have a carrot and a stick.
I cosign this statement! #yes
YES!!🙌🏻
Sadly it's just another yt comment
Great news! Non competes are grossly unfair.
I'd agree.
@@ALifeAfterLayoff I agree, too. 👍
It's fun how they don't mention the fact that people who need to leave jobs, don't just do it because of money gains...
Some of us do it because the companies were crappy, shady, and terrible, and we want to try and go to another company that hopefully won't suck as much, follow our morals, values, and ethics, and be treated like a human being.
yeah, many of us do and are sharply disappointed to find out it's no better at the new place and sometimes way worse.
@@ExaltedDuck Yep that's frequently the case.
Now we need to ban asking for your previous salaries.
non-compete clauses are by their very nature, anti-capitalistic. Competition matters and is good. Only a weakling fears competition of others. It is anti-free market. If you're locked in and can't start your own company, you're not free to act in the market.
That's fair, but everything spoken about how great capitalism is is nothing but post hoc justifications that don't bear out in practice. The same people who say they love Adam Smith act in ways that were derided by Smith in the Wealth of Nations.
Let's have child labor and 100 hour work weeks.
More free market = better
Right?
I agree that hindering competition by having non-compete agreements is bad but to say that anything that frees the market is good is just psychotic.
It’s true that non-competes are, by definition, anti-free-market, but that’s not the same as being anti-capitalist. Capitalism is essentially an economic system that prioritizes capital, and the interests of capital can be extremely anti-competitive. Monopolization is the total elimination of competition, and one of its effects is suppression of market freedom. Nonetheless, it is the natural end goal of a capitalist enterprise, which is why antitrust laws became necessary as a guardrail to keep capitalism from going off the rails.
@@nathanedison8692and yet there’s still monopolies especially in Big Tech
@@nathanedison8692 That and laws and taxes and fines to control negative externalities, defined as economic transactions that benefit the parties, supply-side and demand-side, but negatively impact third parties, for example, society at-large.
I had to sign a non-compete form when I got a part time job at Subway making sandwiches when I was 16
It's called an NDA... Non-compete is a sham when an NDA could protect a companies proprietary information.
@@CombatMedic1Oright, they rarely would waste the time to chase employees and enforce them unless they had a good reason to. Like a higher up with lots of secrets…then again a NDA would cover that.
NDAs are less evil. I am in favor of them as companies pay a lot of money for their intellectual property
NDA =/= non-compete
Proprietary info and trade-secrets are already included under civil and criminal law.
@@timothygibney159 For large tech companies, NDAs border on irrelevant because they churn out patents and teams of lawyers to enforce them. For smaller companies that rely on secrecy, NDAs are theoretically more useful, but difficult and expensive to enforce in practice. It's difficult to find a happy middle-ground when it comes to NDAs.
The sad truth is companies would rather spend billions on lawyers fighting employees and using intimidation / fear tactics via these Non-Competes than incentivize their employees to stay.
Many years ago, one job had a non compete clause for us. We were janitors.
Oh they should ban 1) asking my previous salary 2) job referrals 3) test assessment for free 3) multiple interviews for free😊
It is my god-given right as a tax paying citizen to decide where I want to work. I have the freedom and authority to choose and not some employer.
I have a non-compete that prevents me from going to a competitor, anyone my company buys from, and anyone my company sells to. It basically traps you at the company unless you want to leave the industry all together.
Hope this isn't struck down by the Supreme Court, non-competes are horrible.
It probably will be. 😢 The bad guys have a point here that this sort of thing should be a law passed by Congress and not an administrative rule implemented by unelected appointees.
@@danielschein6845 But that's what administrations like these are for.
If everything serious needs to go through congress, the old-fatheaded farts hardly understand anything about the job market anymore, and only care about the money they get.
Not only that, congress is currently being pulled apart by psychopaths, so we can't count o them for anything right now.
Administrations can still do a whole lot to save us, when congress fails us.
We can't be expecting congress to do every-little-thing we need to have done.
It's a huge reason why so many human rights are still shadowed, Right-to-repair is smacked down by greedy politicians, and hard working disabled people are still treated like 4th class citizens.
F the Supreme Court. The current one is the reason I vote blanket democrat.
@luke5100 The thinking is a federal agency is not elected by the people. The constitution calls for laws to come from Congress (who are elected by and responsible to the people in their district or state). Some extreme examples: the EPA could decide tomorrow that gas cars pollute too much and are illegal. Or the CDC could mandate that every citizen get a series of COVID shots.
@FTBASTAR Admitting you proudly vote Democrat at this point is wild. Especially while seeing how badly their ideas are failing across the country.
This is definitely a positive thing. I have had to sign noncompetes on several occasions and it just doesn’t seem right in an “at will” state. The company has all the leverage.
I had to sign a "non compete" clause. They told me its was so i didnt take trade secrets to their competitors. I asked if i was also going to sign an NDA as well and they said no. Thats when i knew the "non compete" was there just to stop me from leaving for a similar job with higher pay.
I have signed an NDA, but never was offered a non-compete. Hell, I did not know it existed till this video. Asked my husband - same.
I just left a consulting company where a non-compete clause was probably costing me at least another $10k - $20k because the client wanted to FTE me at the end. I can't see a reason why this would ever benefit anyone but the company to keep paying low wages
Non-competes are crazy. They are already unenforceable in California which is one of the reasons Silicon Valley became what it is. You absolutely should have the right to use your skills to feed yourself or your family.
Glad this is changing because years ago we lost a candidate because previous employer was not releasing them since the industry was the same. If they lay off someone and competition takes them that's just how it works.
Imagine if workers could force employers to sign a legally binding agreement that if they fired you they could not hire anybody to do your job, or a similar job, for 5 years.
Good, I ignored them anyway
Making these clauses illegal is 💯 the right thing to do! Are we a free economy or not? How can en employee not be able to work where they want? Crazy USA!
It isn't. It's the second best thing to do. The best thing to do would be for non compete to require from the company to keep paying the same wage for the whole duration of the non-compete.
Here in the Netherlands, non-competes occur, but can be annuled when unfair or deemed not clear enough. As an employer, you can't block your employees from going elsewhere, just prevent your trade secrets running to the competition directly. So yeah, NDA are more effective.
I think that if people are laid off due to some mass lay off-wave, and not due to incompetence for example, the employer loses all rights to decide where the employee will go, to be honest.
Got laid off last year with minimal severance but was still bound by a 1 year noncompete. Got work then had to sign a 2 year noncompete with my new employer. So messed up. If you are layed off or fired you should get a severance for the length of time or it get ripped up. In addition they should be minimal in duration.
If the employment contract is preventing someone from pursuing employment elsewhere, then the employer should compensate the individual for the duration of the clause.
Regardless of the reason, the company should keep paying the same wage for the duration of the non-compete.
The american dream 😍
Non-competes are anti-free markets by nature. As Milton Friedman would say: “I’m not pro business, I’m pro markets.” These only help businesses in the sense of not having to worry about giving employees a fair treatment given that it limits their ability to freely choose for whom to work for. They should be completely illegal.
We were working in a cellular mobile operator company. It was a surprise for us to learn that we had non-compete clause with some software development companies.
This is one place where I think the agency has it right. The vast majority of non competes do nothing to protect the employee, only the companies, and few if any are negotiated so its not really 'contract' in a fair marketplace.
Next, we need them to rule that companies should not be able to keep PTO that was earned when a person parts service whether they are fired or not. If its presented as an actual earned benefit they should be paid.
It sounds like the direction will be to adopt rules like California's against non-competes. The exceptions where they are enforceable are pretty reasonable. Lets hope PTO rules follow, too. Vacation time is considered vested wages and "use it or lose" is considered theft. Only thing is, there's a major loophole... Now most employers have limited accrual rules. So instead of paying out unused time at year's end, they carry over unused vacation time to the next year up to some certain cap. My ca[ is 150% of the basic allotment. So since I get 15 days a year, if I use 5 and roll over 10, that would add up to 25 next year. but 150% of 15 is 22.5... so I "don't accrue" any time past that or rather, only receive 12.5 days instead of 15 for the new year. (Personally I think that should be illegal or at least have that missed 2.5 days paid out)
i would consult an employment attorney
This is a huge win for healthcare providers like myself (MD, NP, and PA) that often have non-compete clauses that stipulate not being able to work within a certain radius from the organization’s multiple locations. This sometimes causes healthcare providers to have to move out of state to work, which also limits access to healthcare providers in that specialty. Non-compete clauses are predatory!!
I've worked as a contractor for most of my career. I think it's totally fine for my employer who puts me into a customer's team, stopping me from leaving and working for the customer immediately. However, attempts to stopping me from working in the industry is ridiculous.
Wait, they lay you off and try to enforce the non-compete? Wow.
Employers will still force you to sign them or not hire you in the hope it will be over turned
I signed a non-compete agreement. Everyone who've I've asked about told me it was utterly unenforceable.
I found it bs that these non compete causes were legal in the first place, like why is this company allowed to be stopping you from making a living? Your bills and costs to live dont stop so your ability to seek a new job shouldn't either. These companies need to know their place.
This will 100% go all the way to the supreme court so I wouldn't bet on this just yet.
im on board with getting rid of lobbiest
4:16 you should do a video on this especially how misleading the unemployment numbers are. The news keeps saying the economy is booming and unemployment is as low as ever.
Finally something from the Democrats I like. I think this is going to go a long way in terms of making a lot of work environments better. It's going to make it easier for employees to find better situations for themselves and their current workplace and other workplaces if they so desire. I like freedom and this means freedom
Actually, if you turn your TV and radio channels, you'll find a lot that Democrats do for working people.
@@christschoolSuch as? Not being combative, I just don't keep up with politics.
@@christschoolsending billions to Ukraine and destroying small businesses during doesn’t count or help your argument. They’re part of the uniparty
If you like this you'll really like that the Biden Administration and Transportation Secretary just announced they are enacting laws to make Airlines actually refund your money promptly. So when your flight is cancelled or your luggage goes to Timbuktu instead of your destination or some other airline fu
Yes I can't say I agree with a lot of what this administration does, but they have a few good ideas and this is one of them.
It doesn’t matter if you’re working minimum wage or your an executive, the non competes are required. The bigger the company the more prohibitive and intrusive. It’s not just the money. It’s about opportunity. Most companies have very little opportunities for advancement these days.
I had never heard of a non-compete clause until I signed a contract to work for an American-run company (operating in Canada). The contract also included some other crazy stuff, like requiring us to provide 1 month of notice before leaving the job, which is an illegal requirement in my province, and stipulating that we will only be paid time-and-a-half for overtime above 42 hours per week, which is also illegal here. They just wrote a bunch of illegal stuff in the contract and then stuck a note at the end of each section saying "subject to local regulations". It taught me to always check anything my employer claimed against my province's employment standards. The company did follow the regulations while I worked there - the contract was just full of nonsense.
As for the non-compete clause, it is technically legal to include it here, but would be difficult or impossible to successfully enforce because it must meet the requirement of being "reasonable". Many of my coworkers broke it, and the company never went after them. Nobody (at least in the worker and supervisor levels) really believed they had to follow that clause. There's a court history of non-compete clauses being struck down as unenforceable in court here, so I doubt the company would waste money in that legal battle except maybe for some top level management kind of person.
It should be straight up illegal though. We shouldn't have to sign a contract and bet on parts of it being unenforceable against us. And I'm lucky to live somewhere that I have that legal presumption.
Edit: Spelling
Unless your career required license/registration with a public organization, there was hardly ever a way to police these things anyhow.
Every application we see asks if you have an agreement with an employer.
I’ll keep this in mind assuming that I actually get a job offer in the future.
Lol
Retrain. There are openings in many fields
@@fremontpathfinder8463 I thought about that but if I can’t even find work in the field where I have decades of experience what chance do I have to break into a new field where I have zero experience and even positions labeled as “entry level” turn out to require years of experience just to get your CV to pass the initial screening process.
Never signed one anyway. If a potential employer put one in front of me, I walked away. 99% of the time, they'd offer to remove it since I refused to sign, but companies that used these things aren't worth working for. A non-compete should be only for very senior level workers (think C-suite, Senior VP's, etc), and it should come with a severance package (think 1-2 years salary at least for 12 months of "non -compete"). Companies, however, were using these as a way to create an indentured servant class of worker who couldn't just find something better. What's worse, even if the company fired the employee, they were still held by the non-compete. It was already unenforceable in many states, but glad to see it's nationwide now. Hopefully it will also apply to "moonlighting" clauses. What I do on my own time is my business, not my daytime employer's.
Me too 100%
Actually, as a VP, I don't think they should apply to me either, or the C-suite. If you signed an NDA that should be enough; only a complete moron is going to share trade secrets with another company.
We were bought, required to sign a non-compete before any of us would be recognized as employees in the new company and there was a lot of back and forth about the rigid and aggressive nature of the agreement. Eventually they adjusted a few things and then put it back out there at the 11th hour when we had to decide to walk or sign it. We ended up signing it, but it was a horrible way to start our relationship with the new owner - who is a narcissist - and most are looking for the next role now, but the new owner lucked out on timing because it's a tough market to find anything new in currently. So we're stuck until we get lucky or the market improves again.
I’m currently fighting a non compete with a lawyer. He told me that more than likely someone will sue the FTC keeping the new ruling in litigation for years. As well the Supreme Court is stacked with republic judges so it doesn’t look well.
This is great news! I won’t be abused anymore!
There's a very high chance that the Supreme Court will strike this down. Hopefully it raises awareness for more states to ban non-competes.
Why do you say that?
If anything they can put in a rule that states that if you have someone on a non compete you have to pay their salary during that period. You'd severely disincentivize non competes.
@@HH-le1vi That's called garden leave, which is typical in Massachusetts.
I am afraid you are correct. I expect the supreme court to rule that this is something that Congress needs to legislate, and not an administrative department to dictate.
Simple. If companies truly believe it's all about trade secrets (which I think is mostly bullshit), then let them specify exactly what those secrets are and then those can be protected by a non-disclosure act. The scope of these should be severely limited and confined to products or IP that they INVENTED. And anything truly that novel is protected under a patent anyway. It shouldn't be as broad as: you can't work for a competitor for X years.
I hope this sticks. I've never heard anything so anti "free market" as non-compete agreements. I literally worked for a hair salon that sued an employee for leaving to work at a different salon in "too close of proximity." So your options are to find a new career, or move to a new city (depending on the agreement, possibly a new state) if you need to get out of your job. The judge actually ruled in favor of the employee on that one, but it cost her thousands of dollars in legal fees. Insanity. The idea that a company can own you, even the idea that they can quell healthy competition in the market at all... I don't usually say things like this, but it's un-American.
This issue is a textbook example of government facillitating the right conditions for creating rules that make the playing field equal and fair to compete. Although, I must add that we need to abolish the FTC. This rule is the responsibility of congress, not unelected persons.
I remember Jimmy John's had a non-compete clause. I mean did they have top secret info for crappy sandwiches? LOL and yes that was one of many employers where I was treated poorly have to customers didn't tip, I was forced to cover two areas of delivery with no extra pay twice before I flat-out refused to continue doing it. Twice when I had to leave work because of an abusive manager I didn't get compensated for what I'd made terrible awful company that really should go out of business
Non-compete clauses should have been moot if one got laid off. This is a great move, and I rarely say good things about government actions.
Power shift to the people.
Im currently under a non compete expiring in August... It has hindered me greatly the past 8 months. I went from making six figures to struggling to find consistent work. Was working in Logistics/Sales for 6 years.
My severence package was conditional to a 1 year no-compete agreement that i had to sign that I was told about when i was laid off.
@luke5100 www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/board-rules-that-employers-may-not-offer-severance-agreements-requiring
This is good news! There are non-disclosure agreements to protect sensitive trade secrets.
The only thing in my non compete is directly working for our clients.
it would be nice if the government took some accountability and openly admitted we're in a recession so we can actually tackle the problem.
personally, i'm working in a toxic retail environment where i am just one of several underpaid pawns with no voice and no options. my company is worth BILLIONS and yet we have a constant revolving door of underpaid and overworked employees, at least half of which are elderly or teens
Yay you covered my suggestion! Non-compete contracts are extremely anti-free market and it shackles and intimidates employees into working for one company with lower wages. Not to mention leaving will result in years of no work. Though I have heard from layers that it’s unenforceable and that contracts are still liable to following laws, aka if it’s affecting your livelihood, the contract is null and void.
They have always been unenforceable. But companies kept them in anyway as a scare tactic because it technically wasn’t illegal to threaten employees.
Gotta treat your people good. Maybe now HR will get motivated to detox the job place.
“America is not the greatest country in the world, that’s my answer!” Will from The Newsroom. HBO
Non-competes should be illegal, “if you don’t work for us, you can’t work for anyone”
Nice! Now I can go back to work in Airplane Manufacturing, and Advise people to avoid said company. Part of the non-compete also clarified that you cannot obstruct or discourage or otherwise interfere with any current or potential employee.
though, any proprietary info should still be covered by NDA.
but now I dont have to wait a year in a half. Better job here I come! and no more being held hostage in the future
Boeing would like to know your location
@@lasciviouspaine hahaha, it wasnt Boeing. It was a smaller company that made private jets and planes
Whoa. Did not even think that noncompete exists, lol. Greedy companies laying off workers should now be scared and careful. This is a win.
same
when I started with my current company, they made me sign a non-compete which made zero sense for a support agent.... I quickly got promoted to a dev role and can see the source code so NOW it makes sense. That said, the one they had me sign is extremely narrow so I didn't really care that much.
That's good news. I hope it goes through in August. I was going to a graphic design position at a small business and I would have had to sign a non compete agreement and not do my own business to selling graphic design services or art work I think.
Better late than never, but twenty years behind the curve.
Stick it to the man! :)
It actually feels like the government is working for the people for once! lol
I hope this don't get overturned, we need employers to compete for good talent.
This is great news! Hope any challenges are defeated and it goes through.
I was forced to sign a non compete to be a bagger at kroger in 2017
Way to go USA! I hope this goes through. I am currently only an employee but with my 15+ y of experience in tech I think this will benefit everyone. Companies would have to think more about culture and behavior of their management and hence would achieve better employee retention and lower their legal expenses.
Anyways if the employee is fired without a reason (eg. a mass lay-off) then a non-compete clause is void at least here in Switzerland.
Probably the main reason for it being that if the person cannot find a suitable job, the unemployment insurance would have to pay their last salary for a while…
About time some of the one sided language in contract agreements will change. Next up contract workers should not be limited to one submission. Multiple submissions should be allowed with competitive rates. That was always BS.
Employers will just shift back to using blacklists more.
Great news!
if you fear you will lose hardworking talented employees to another company, then maybe you don't deserve to be their employer. Hiring process should be a mutual thing, take care of people and pay them what they are worth.
Bojangles ( the chicken place) made you sign non compete on how they made Cajun Rice, when Pizza Hut serves rice I'll be worried
Great! Now I can work two jobs for the price of one!
Basically as it stands, labor laws are extremely weak and any unions or any forming unions have no teeth.
Interestingly this will impact wrestling entertainment organizations like WWE & AEW. Glad for the talent.
Another great video, Bryan!!
It's good for workers, but I question whether the FTC has the authority to dictate private contract terms to this degree. If they could make a mandate like this, what else could they do? I think this likely gets challenged in the courts. It's just election window dressing for Biden.
Is it any worse than businesses dictating what you can do with your knowledge and labor.
You'll be surprised on how much the government has the authority to dictate contracts, including residential leases and airline contracts of carriages.
Personally, I don't see how non-compete clauses can be enforced if you are laid off or fired. I can see if you quit, but not any other way of your job ending.
At my last job, when I was let go, I told one company on an interview of the non-compete, but they said it was too general to be enforceable. So I didn't worry about it after that.
there has been precedent that these were unenforceable for years now. So this is just solidifying that precedent. You have a right to make a living. If employers want to protect their IP - they should pay for it and treat their employees right.
Unfortunately, I live in a state and work for a corporation in a state that both enforce non-competes, so it is very much a hindrance to career growth and salary increases. NDAs can protect IP.
5 yrs non compete???!!!!!!!
I can give you another way employees can win: work hard and get promoted. I know, I’m old school.
California “banned” non-competes quite a few years ago yet they are still common here? I’ve heard a lot of people say that therefore you should go ahead and sign them.
DON’T. These clauses aren’t in your paperwork because the corporate lawyers are ignorant of local California law. They are in there because they provide a way for a former employer to really mess up your life even if they can’t prevail in a lawsuit.
In my industry, most job applications have a question in them asking if you are subject to a non-compete. If you say yes, your resume goes in the trash never to be seen by human eyes. If you say no and get the job, your former employer has the option of writing a letter to your new one and getting you fired for lying. No law will prevent this tactic.
The lesson here is never sign a non-compete. Walk away from the job if they don’t remove it.
I worked as a software developer for a company in a specific niche that had competitors. Our company got bought out by one of them and the new company started letting everybody go. One guy a year before that left our company and created his own.... so I moonlighted for him. When it was my time to get fired the new company wanted me to sign a non-compete for 1 year and offered me a month of wages... what? I told them for 1 year non compete I wanted 50% of my wages and they declined so I tore the non-compete form up in front of them and told them I'm already competing against them. So worked for my buddy full time for CASH so I could collect unemployment at same time. Unemp ran out and he hired me legit. 😁
You are an inspiration to me! I love how you handled the bs and hope you’re doing great in your new work. Thank you!
ONE win for the employee. Bravo! There are 9999 more to win
My industry is not afflicted by non-compete clauses, but I think they're a shameful practice. I can completely understand non-DISCLOSURE agreements, but telling someone where they may/may not work based on something so frivolous as this should be (and thankfully will be) unlawful.
There is nothing stopping employers from hiring new workers, and driving out/firing older workers, to save a few bucks. Why should THE PEOPLE not be allowed to do the same in reverse? Hypocritical policies created by corporations, that's why. Good riddance, and thank you Biden Administration!
About time!
I'm pulling for the end of at will employment too.
I'm a concierge for the residential division of B.F. Saul. I've got a non-compete on my ass. I just don't care. I am not scare of my employer. I've also read and reread it multiple times over to know how to defend myself. It helps immensely that my Dad is a retired DoD employee. My Momma is a retired teacher. And I have a maternal uncle out west who's retired CHP (California Highway Patrol). And I am in an active job search. I live in Fairfax County, Virginia (suburb of Washington, DC). The only reason my rent is a low as it is is because I have a subsidized rate through Fairfax County (not section 8). And I still have to get my parents to buy me groceries and help with rent. I don't like doing that because they're on pensions.
I once worked a job that had a non-compete. When I left I hired a lawyer to read it and handle problems if they came up. New employer did not require a non-compete. Old company vener tried anything.
This will be challenged and struck down.
Are you for or against it?