Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages

Re:Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages by masklinn on Thursday December 06, 2018 @04:59AM (#18616688)

> 60%? Forget that. Why should anyone give up their right to work for a little over half of their market value?

They don't. They very specifically can not ask an employee to "give up their right to work", only in the US does that shit happen.

German law (and most european law around NCC in various fashion) requires that the NCC ne limited in time and not have "unreasonable clauses" e.g. can't prevent working in the field throughout the country.

As a result enforceable NCCs are extremely rare and only happen for actual business interest reasons, it's not a sword over the employee's head as it is in the US.

Also it's at least 50% of gross, so closer to 65~70% of net.

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Re:Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages by foepys on Thursday December 06, 2018 @06:10AM (#18617027)

To add to that, it's very rare that companies deny employees to work on side projects (or rather claim all work an employee did in their free time for themselves). That's typically done by American companies.

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Re:Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages by distances on Friday December 07, 2018 @04:45AM (#18626291)

Yes, I don't know how anyone would agree on such a clause. Hobby projects are none of the employer's business.

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