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Re:Tech CEO fired two engineers for having second full-time ... by ElevenLathe on Monday October 24, 2022 @10:29AM (#33317115)
> I highly doubt it’s in the bounds of the contract with any typical employer.

Certainly not any recent contracts since this has popped up on corporate legal departments' radars.

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Re:Tech CEO fired two engineers for having second full-time ... by s1artibartfast on Monday October 24, 2022 @10:32AM (#33317166)
What do you mean? I don't think ip assignments have gone away
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Re:Tech CEO fired two engineers for having second full-time ... by ElevenLathe on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @11:01AM (#33331459)
My point was that, even if this was OK under most pre-pandemic contracts, you can be sure that savvy legal departments have since put in language that makes it definitely out-of-bounds now.
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