Re:EU to mandate public salary information for all job posti...
by Bayart on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @09:52AM
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The assumption is that a job that would incentivize non-competes would be so well paid that 50% would still be comfortable, isn't it ?
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Re:EU to mandate public salary information for all job posti...
by tomp on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @10:05AM
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From my experience working in finance in London, no.
Good salary? Sure! Able to live comfortably with 50% salary (when rent is 30-50% of take-home pay)? Zero chance.
In practice the biggest impediment to even longer non-competes is legal risk; the tiny chance of an employee challenging the non-compete in court and the court ruling unreasonable or overly broad, would result in all other employees knowing their non-competes are effectively void.
Re:EU to mandate public salary information for all job posti...
by ATsch on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @10:17AM
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Did you have to sign a non-compete for that job? Regardless of the exact reason for the impediment, it still remains that due to the restrictions, non-competes are not common enough in the EU to even be in the vocabulary of regular working people. I can't find any concrete numbers but it's definitely nowhere near the ridiculous 18% jobs that have them in the US. So it's pretty hard to argue the restrictions aren't effective.