Re:Pittsburgh Gets a Tech Makeover
by 762236 on Sunday July 23, 2017 @12:02PM
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A drawback for us engineers: no moonlighting law. When you work for a tech company in Pittsburgh, they own everything you think and produce, even in your off hours when you're trying to bootstrap that startup. Pittsburgh can never turn into a Silicon Valley with this limitation.
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What policy is this a consequence of?
Re:Pittsburgh Gets a Tech Makeover
by Hydraulix989 on Sunday July 23, 2017 @02:54PM
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It's more of a consequence of an absence of policy (like with net neutrality -- nothing stopping ISPs from traffic-shaping and restricting content without "regulation" of some sort) than the presence of one.
Employers are free to impose whatever restrictions on "moonlighting" they want on their employment contracts (and tech's routinely non-unionized workers are put in a position where they have no choice but to accept them)
California actually has laws in place that make it illegal for employers to do things like add non-compete clauses to their employment contracts (and these laws also render said clauses to be unenforceable).