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I'd love to know where you live that an employer can fire you and expect you to honor a non compete. The second they stop paying you your obligations end. No j

• vostok 9y ago
  You can find a new job if your noncompete is terminated. The problem is that you might have a 12 month non-compete so you might book a 3 month vacation at the beginning because nobody will hire you 12 months in advance. You're just left in the lurch if your former employer then terminates the noncompete within a month and stops paying you. The alternative of just sitting home for those 12 months doesn't sound great either.
• brians 9y ago
  Most of the USA, including Massachusetts (but not California).
• fnj 9y ago
  I have been given "agreements" to sign in which the non-compete clause is plainly unconditionally worded: no matter what the cause of termination. I don't know whether they expected to enforce it or not. I redlined the part covering "dismissal", and my annotated agreement was not rejected. This was in Massachusetts. In the end I did get RIFed. They nailed me by conditioning the severance package on accepting a freshly drafted non-compete. I went along with it because I considered my likelihood of continuing in that line of work to be negligible anyway.
• siegel 9y ago
  Actually, even in California, in the limited instances in which a non-compete is enforceable, being fired has no bearing on the non-compete's enforceability.