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A lot of times employers say "This is industry standard." or "Everyone else has the same sort of agreement." If such a website listed companies that good/no no
by pm24601 10y ago
A lot of times employers say "This is industry standard." or "Everyone else has the same sort of agreement."
If such a website listed companies that good/no non-compete clauses, it gives ammunition for prospective employees. Esp people with multiple offers, during the negotiation, the candidate can point to a competing offer from a company with no non-compete clause.
- HarryHirsch 10y agoThe common piece of advice that you get is to run your employment contract past a lawyer. That's good advice. If the landshark is any good they'll tell you what is industry standard and what is overreach. You don't need no website, you need a professional network and some sense.
- dredmorbius 10y agoPorque no los dos? Having and hiring your own expert to negotiate helps. But shining some very bright sunlight on practices and abuses helps as well. The more Amazon (and its recruiters) hear "I don't work for assholes", the better. Markets rely on well-informed participants. Also Microsoft. And, on different grounds, Oracle. And Google, Intel, Cisco, and Apple ("anti-poaching" market collusion -- the case is still ongoing AFAIK, though I've not been following closely). I've many reasons for avoiding the industry, but these are among them.
- WildUtah 10y ago"Porque no los dos?" ¿Por qué no los dos?
- dredmorbius 10y agoPor que no los dos?
- throwaway987611 10y agoPlease don't bring that garbage here. It's not a funny meme. It wasn't funny when it first aired and it's not funny now.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoTranslation for the rest of us: "why not both?".
- throwaway987611 10y agoPlease don't bring that garbage here. It's not a funny meme. It wasn't funny when it first aired and it's not funny now.
- notlefthanded 10y agohttp://www.fluentu.com/spanish/blog/porque-por-que/ http://www.fluentu.com/spanish/blog/porque-por-que/
- throwaway987611 10y ago> Porque no los dos? Please don't bring that garbage here. It's not a funny meme. It wasn't funny when it first aired and it's not funny now.
- Bartweiss 10y agoThis is good advice for many people, sure, but not a replacement for transparency. Several companies I talked to for my first internship came with NDAs and noncompetes, and there's no way in hell I was scraping together lawyer money to address each one. Googling and asking friends was the only thing going. Remember that freaking Jimmy John's sticks their sandwich makers with noncompete clauses. These are not people who have the freedom to reject a job offer, the pull to renegotiate a contract, or the money to hire an attorney. But they might well have the option of checking out a website and deciding which fast food places to apply to based on how abusive the contracts are. More broadly, I'm skeptical of any argument which starts from "this doesn't need to be publicly available knowledge, just pay a lawyer to tell you how things are done". Personal legal advice is a good hedge, but it often highlights points where transparency is lacking and people without savings are getting screwed.
- brandonbloom 10y agoI absolutely love the idea. Kinda like a https://tldrlegal.com/ https://tldrlegal.com/ for employment agreements. Somebody should build that.
- crdoconnor 10y ago...and also cross reference it against companies that have at any point complained of a lack of affordable talent.
- imglorp 10y agoAre employment agreements secret sometimes? Can anybody get in trouble for disclosing the agreement they signed? Can a third party like we're proposing get in trouble for publishing such agreements?