Obama takes aim at workers’ non-compete agreements

Re:Obama takes aim at workers’ non-compete agreements by dudul on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @02:06PM (#12798890)

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

Great. So the guy who leaves Dunkin' Donuts can go work at Starbucks? Awesome.

What kind of BS is that? What kind of secret IP, or valuable knowledge does a low-wage employee has that is worth protecting with a non-compete?

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Re:Obama takes aim at workers’ non-compete agreements by dragonwriter on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @02:43PM (#12799218)

A fair number of low wage jobs use noncompetes, notionally to protect trade secrets that line staff need access to in order to execute job duties. It's probably most often pretextual in such jobs, but that's a good reason for policy to particularly disfavor the use of noncompetes there.

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