Austin attorney shares warning to workers about ban on noncompete clauses
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- Опубліковано 23 кві 2024
- Austin Kaplan, an employment attorney based in Austin, spoke with KXAN's Will DuPree about the Federal Trade Commission's decision to ban noncompete clauses in workers' contracts nationwide. Read more: www.kxan.com/hill-politics/ch...
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Noncompete's never should've been legal in the first place.
There are some places and circumstances where non-competes make perfect sense. However, I doubt if making fast food qualifies.
If you aren't paying me any more then you shouldn't be able to tell me what to do.
Keep customers by providing good services and products. Everyone has a right to 'shop around', companies included. Competition is just that, deal with it.
Can we all agree Citizens United should be over turned so we can take our country back from corporations???
I don’t think you understand the Citizens United case.
Nope lol. You can take the country back when you provide value above and beyond what illegals can do Lolzz.
@@crinklecut3790 I am 100% sure you do not understand the case. They overturned a law that prevented corporations from spending money to influence campaigns and who people vote for. This opened the floodgates for corporations to control our elections and ensure that only the candidates who are friendly to corporate interests are elected. We have given more power to special interest groups with deep pockets than individual voters and that is why they have such a stranglehold on our politics. Its why prices in a variety of industries never come down. The medical, military industrial complex, education, grocery stores and countless other corporations lobby and influence politics so that we can never pass legislation that would reign in their monopolistic aggression. They break the law all the time and then get the laws changed to favor their greed and corruption. People die every day from preventable things because business would rather make a massive profit than change their products to be safer. Our food is terrible and yet we cant do a damn thing because they block government from exercising its authority to protect us. These people in corporations are the scum of the earth and need to be stopped.
Citizens United just said the government can’t choose who is actually a journalist with 1A rights.
The NY Times is a corporation with 1A rights and can report on candidates and elections. Anyone else should have the same rights including a collective of people forming their own corporation. The the heart of citizens United
Noncompete clauses are a modern form of obliging one to be an indentured servant. A "lighter" form of slavery.
The "masters" are of course, going to challenge the FTC.
lol "muh slavery, muh oppression, muh I'm a victim".
How about this, baby boy: a company has no interests in training you up just so you can pay them back by resigning and immediately taking those skills to their competitors.
Not that you have anything to worry about. Taco Bell janitors don't have noncompete clauses.
Yup. People don’t understand that noncompetes are an intimidation tool that binds one to their previous employer-like a serf.
Even if the binding firm knows they can’t win, they can intimidate and destroy a previous employee just by filing a suit. The employee loses their new job and ends up with legal bills.
I’ve seen it done. I almost had it done to me.
My nephew had to sign a noncompete while he worked at a carwash... yeah these companies abuse the heck out of non-competes.
I’ve seen families geographically and forcefully separated by these things, I’ve seen people get huge paycuts after being coerced into one, I’ve seen these things be present to people who don’t even speak English very well (should have been presented in their native language). Yea companies have abused them so much
That wasn't smart
It’s not abuse if your nephew willingly signed what was stated in the contract. Stop thinking like a victim
@@CallsignethiopiaEither sign or you don't have a job, but for a car wash? What's the difference? That's a dumb non compete
Employment contacts have gone way too far in non-competes and intellectual property. Hopefully companies will get more than a slap on the wrist like the Silicon Valley companies received when the colluded with each other to limit employees from switching companies to keep salaries down. Also, I've been forced multiple times to push back on employment contracts in IT that were so broadly worded that if I wrote a fiction book in my spare time, the company would own it.
Non compete codicils were originally meant to prevent certain workers from taking clients and clients lists from one company to another competing company. Car salesmen is one example. But companies began exploiting non compete clauses to keep high performing employees from leaving. Most non competes of six months have been upheld but those that kept employees out of work at competing firms for one year or longer are generally unenforceable. Even so, most companies don’t want to fight restraining orders because of the time and expense involved in litigation. Eliminating non-compete clauses is great for workers but not so great for companies and industries that rely on keeping customers and, in the case of broadcasters, audiences.
The problem is not the noncompete..it's the price to hire an attorney!
It’s ok if a worker moves it’s client list from one company to another. The client wont switch if the price os worse so overall this incentivizes competition
@@WaffersCappuccinoFl some working at McDonald should never have to sign a non compete
@niyablake exactly, and if they did an attorney should cost them 5grand!!
As a Physician, I got screwed out of a good job by a Non Compete Clause once and thereafter I Lined out and initialed the change in every contract I signed before I sent it back to the Employer. I never lost a job by doing this and never had a problem after that. I don't know if they just didn't notice my change to the contract or if they really didn't care, but I never had any restriction on changing jobs after that.
I have never quite a job only bosses
This one will ultimately be decided at SCOTUS. There’s just too much money involved for it not to be.
And Scotus heavily favors conservatives and will always err on the side of Republican interests. Nothing will change it will continue to be corrupt.
And they're paid off by big business same as congressman and senators.
Austin on Austin.
Congress needs to codify laws against noncompete agreements.
Non competed are banned, however non solicitation or customer stealing via direct or in directs js enforceable still
I have a $15k increase opportunity with another employer that I can't pursue due to a non-compete. Can't wait for this to go into effect.
Non Competes are the “Quid” in the Quid pro Pro. Consider that in any discussion.
If you don't want your employee to leave for better pay,etc then maybe you should pay up or treat them better
I believe someone should be free to move on. However, this seems like what government agencies always do. Such as tbe cdc or atf. They do not have the authority to make or change laws. And they try all the time.
You can't stop a person practicing his/her trade in order to make a living
You can, Honest to effin' gawd, don't you get it?
But they can, will, and have saddled ex-employees with hassles and legal bills.
As far as I have seen Non Competes don’t hold up in court
States with *right to work* laws that give employers unrestricted right to fire employees with no notice and for no reason, defending the same employers who impose *non-compete contracts* to trap employees in what amounts to virtual servitude conditions.
Companies will spend billions to fight a law that says they can't treat us like slaves, but they say they're broke when it's time for raises.
The entities that are filing the lawsuits against the FTC are well connected and very wealthy.They OWN your politicians and judges so don’t expect this new ruling to stand.The supreme court is also dominated by pro-business lobbyists who will never have the working class’ best interests at heart.
Land of Freedom & Non-Compete law are Oxymorons.
Your wrong, why should a sales person quit you with all of your building practices clients pricing be able tomorrow go work for the competitor. A lawyer is completely different as your not taking trade secrets with you
Wow, how will the MAGA types coup?? Power to the People ☮️
this attorney is smart but not on this issue
Another graduate of the YT School of Law weighs in.