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.

  • 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