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Re:Amazon sues employee for taking Google cloud job, in new ... by Fuxy on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @06:14AM (#7976072)
No that basic duties you have to perform in order to effectively do your job at that company do not need to be itemized however any extra requirements past the termination of your contract should be.

People assume once you finish working for a specific company you're done and you have no more obligation to them so if they want these perks they need to specify how much extra they are paying for them.

The real problem with contracts today is they can trow whatever they want in and make it as complicated as possible in the hope that you don't read it when signing it.

If they were required to give you a summary of the important bits this exploitation would be harder to pull off.

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Re:Amazon sues employee for taking Google cloud job, in new ... by icebraining on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @06:22AM (#7976091)
I agree that contracts should be clearer, and I wouldn't mind if clauses that a significant number of employees were unaware of were ruled as invalid, but that's not the same as the agreements not being compensated, and I don't see why should they be itemized.
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