Re:Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages
by darkarmani on Friday December 07, 2018 @10:21AM
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> There are people on non competes that are not being compensated with the full salary they would have been getting. To me that is unethical.
They are also making that money while doing nothing.
Re:Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages
by lovich on Monday December 10, 2018 @12:37AM
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They are not making money while doing nothing. They are making money by not using their knowledge, so that their previous employer can prevent other entrants into their market from benefiting from said employees skills.
It is not a hypothetical situation, unless you are trying to claim that no company anywhere is using a non compete, in which case I just need to pull up the associated paperwork for pretty much every offer letter I've gotten. Alternatively I can go and poll just my social circle and compile the list of non competes.
Anything less than the full salary is unethical to me, and I'm partial to arguments that it should be more as the employee under the non compete is losing out on career growth and raises