Re:U.S. Moves to Bar Noncompete Agreements in Labor Contracts
by PaulHoule on Friday January 06, 2023 @10:06AM
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What's hilarious is that many industries run on "expert networks" of people who are full of knowledge they accumulated while under NDA.
The thing you have to realize about commercial contracts is that the law doesn't enforce itself, people who violate them usually don't get caught, etc.
Note also there are other inputs to NDAs. I worked for a firm that did a project for a big accounting firm that itself had confidentiality requirements to its customers so it is natural as an employee of the first firm I help the second firm keep its commitments.
I'd say there are two threads in NDAs: one of them is threats against those who violate confidentiality, another is a description of the procedures that are supposed to be used to protect confidential information. The last time I was doing a lot of consulting I had an NDA that had no threats but lots of guidelines.
The thing you have to realize about commercial contracts is that the law doesn't enforce itself, people who violate them usually don't get caught, etc.
Note also there are other inputs to NDAs. I worked for a firm that did a project for a big accounting firm that itself had confidentiality requirements to its customers so it is natural as an employee of the first firm I help the second firm keep its commitments.
I'd say there are two threads in NDAs: one of them is threats against those who violate confidentiality, another is a description of the procedures that are supposed to be used to protect confidential information. The last time I was doing a lot of consulting I had an NDA that had no threats but lots of guidelines.