- cross-posted to:
- news
- workreform
- cross-posted to:
- news
- workreform
The Federal Trade Commission narrowly voted Tuesday to ban nearly all noncompetes, employment agreements that typically prevent workers from joining competing businesses or launching ones of their own.
I always thought non-competes were total bullshit anyways. Like a scare tactic or something. And unenforceable.
Didn’t matter and sure doesn’t now.
They probably were, but to find out you’d have to go to court, and your average person doesn’t want to do that.
It’s doesn’t matter if you want to go to court. Your future employer doesn’t want to go to court on behalf of a new hire, so they won’t hire you in the first place.
I had a non-compete handed to me when I lived in California. I laughed my ass off and signed it. When I left the dumbass VP of HR threatened me with it.
My response was “Could you pretty please try to enforce it? My lawyer would absolutely love to represent me in court. FYI you know my lawyer. He was the paralegal that told you the non-compete contract wasn’t legal. You then screwed him over and got him laid him off. Guess who passed the bar exam 6 months ago!”
For those not familiar and missing context, California prohibited noncompetes prior to the federal prohibition.
They are illegal in sane countries. Sadly, my country(Russia) is not very sane, so they are only unenforcable here. At least as far as I know.