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Good riddance to this form of wage suppression. Let's do forced arbitration next.
I applaud their death - they are fundamentally bad for employees.
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1) That would be IP theft, and is already covered by other laws. 2) That is the problem I think this solves: retain your key employees. Maybe pay them a bit better than that 2% annual raise.
Starting up a consultancy to do installation of your former employer's software for clients isn't IP theft. If I worked for Atlassian and then created a company that did consulting for how to install Jira and and organize workflows - there's no IP theft involved there. Creating a new competitor isn't about retaining employees. Consider the situation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Blumkin > In 1989, six years a…
> Colorado employers have expressed frustration with the new law, said Carrie Hoffman, a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP in Dallas. “Nobody likes being told when they’re about to hire someone” that that person does not make enough to be eligible for a noncompete, she said. Pay up or shut up. It's that fucking simple, and these abusive employers should not only be grateful that these clauses haven't been outlawed out…
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1) That would be IP theft, and is already covered by other laws. 2) That is the problem I think this solves: retain your key employees. Maybe pay them a bit better than that 2% annual raise.
Starting up a consultancy to do installation of your former employer's software for clients isn't IP theft. If I worked for Atlassian and then created a company that did consulting for how to install Jira and and organize workflows - there's no IP theft involved there. Creating a new competitor isn't about retaining employees. Consider the situation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Blumkin > In 1989, six years a…
That also seems like a very silly thing to prohibit in the first place, since Atlassian's getting paid either way in that case.
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It jumped the shark a few years back when Jimmy Johns tried to force their "sandwich artists" to sign non-competes.
Does JJ refer to their employees as sandwich artists too? I thought that was just a Subway thing. But yeah, beyond ridiculous, as if a JJ employee is going to leak some crazy trade secret to Subway or whoever.
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Really, which laws are those? The only ones I’m aware of would be trade secret laws, but they’re dubiously applicable to bare customer contact lists. You can make contractual restrictions of course (company property), but good luck being able to prove they actually took it unless they’re really dumb. Merely contacting all, or many, customers for instance wouldn’t prove it. Being able to show they work for competitor…
lol, no. Confidential business information is an area heavily protected by law. Customer lists are the canonical example. It’s much easier to win this kind of civil suit than a criminal case. The court can absolutely crush a business that is founded in this manner to compensate the former employer.