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Re:FTC Proposes Banning Noncompete Clauses for Workers by lambdasquirrel on Thursday January 05, 2023 @10:49AM (#34261392)
Which is exactly why the oligarchs (of the non-tech world) will fight tooth and nail to preserve it.

I think we'd see Biden get assassinated, literally or figuratively, before this would go through.

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Re:FTC Proposes Banning Noncompete Clauses for Workers by throwayyy479087 on Thursday January 05, 2023 @11:17AM (#34262024)
The state where all the oligarchs live - NY - doesn't explicitly ban them but treats them as a joke in court.
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Re:FTC Proposes Banning Noncompete Clauses for Workers by anon291 on Thursday January 05, 2023 @10:53AM (#34261490)
It's already illegal in many states
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Re:FTC Proposes Banning Noncompete Clauses for Workers by ghaff on Thursday January 05, 2023 @11:15AM (#34261985)
Aspects of non-competes are not enforceable in some places--and enforcement may require payments to the ex-employee in others (e.g. MA). But some non-compete conditions are generally enforceable even in CA as I understand it (e.g. if you sell a business, you can't set up shop the next street over and contact all your former customers). But they're not illegal as far as I know.
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Re:FTC Proposes Banning Noncompete Clauses for Workers by anon291 on Thursday January 05, 2023 @11:25AM (#34262165)
> if you sell a business, you can't set up shop the next street over and contact all your former customers

The article as about non-compete for workers. Non-competes for M&As are not mentioned.

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Re:FTC Proposes Banning Noncompete Clauses for Workers by ghaff on Thursday January 05, 2023 @11:27AM (#34262210)
The FTC is specifically proposing a carve-out for selling a business. So it is mentioned. The parent made a blanket statement about non-compete legality.
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Re:FTC Proposes Banning Noncompete Clauses for Workers by Kalium on Thursday January 05, 2023 @10:57AM (#34261590)
CA, ND, OK, and DC seem to be the ones of note. A slew of other states have thresholds under which non-competes are invalid, but above which they are. Washington's, as an example, are here: https://lni.wa.gov/workers-rights/workplace-policies/non-com...

Those thresholds mean most software engineers are subject to non-competes.

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