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Re:Obama takes aim at workers’ non-compete agreements by mcarlise on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @11:52AM (#12797489)
Did I read this correctly?

"which would prohibit companies from requiring non-compete agreements for employees who make less than $15 an hour or $31,200 annually."

Re:Obama takes aim at workers’ non-compete agreements by ghaff on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @12:22PM (#12797784)
Yes. This is basically aimed at a handful(?) of especially ridiculous cases of minimum wage service workers having to sign non-competes.

ADDED: In other words, at the risk of being cynical, I suspect that this is mostly political grandstanding. I'm guessing that none of these have ever been enforced. And, whatever one's stand on non-competes generally, it would really be hard to defend the practice in this case with a straight face.

Re:Obama takes aim at workers’ non-compete agreements by sammydavis on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @01:23PM (#12798448)
They have been enforced, against of all things sandwich shop workers. Those are mostly just to scare low income workers from leaving their job.
Re:Obama takes aim at workers’ non-compete agreements by compuguy on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @12:47PM (#12798078)
Honestly this should cover a wider reach of people (6 figure salaries and below). Some of these non-complete agreements are so full of legalese its hard to determine the scope of them.