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.

  • _sideffect@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Is this what they make you sign that says

    “You can’t join any company that is in the same industry or has the same customers for 2 years after leaving the present company”

    ?

    • Silverseren@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Or sometimes, like mine, that you can’t quit your contract early to apply for a full colleague position at the company you’re being contracted out to.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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      1 year ago

      IMO that should be legal, but only if they pay you your full wages for that period of time after you quit or are fired.

      Let’s see how eager they are to really protect those precious company secrets.

      • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        And by full wage, it’s either the wage you had or the one you could get at the competitor. Otherwise, it’s too easy to lock people in at non-competitive salaries.

      • uis@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Why not both? Full wages as damages + EU-style fine of maximum between some amount and some % of global turnover. Or fixed amount + % of global turnover.

        • AA5B@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Full wages only makes the victim whole and only in financial terms. Like any other controls on the market, the financial penalty needs to exceed any benefit the corp might get out of it, then let the free market do its thing

    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Lol what. That doesn’t make any sense. Are you supposed to just sit for 2 years doing nothing unless you’re trained on two completely different fields?