2 ms·

Interesting, do you have a link?

• emodendroket 8y ago
  https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/business/noncompete-clauses-increasingly-pop-up-in-array-of-jobs.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/business/noncompete-claus... > Daniel McKinnon, who had been a hairstylist in Norwell, Mass., lost a court battle with his former employer who claimed that Mr. McKinnon had violated the terms of his agreement when he went to work at a nearby salon. Mr. McKinnon said that he did not think the original restriction — to wait at least 12 months before working at any salon in nearby towns — still applied because he had been fired after years of friction with the manager there. Shortly after being fired, he went to work at a nearby salon. > But a judge issued an injunction ordering him to stop working at his new employer. > “It was pretty lousy that you would take away someone’s livelihood like that,” said Mr. McKinnon, who for the following year lived off jobless benefits of $300 a week. “I almost lost my truck. I almost lost my apartment. Almost everything came sweeping out from under me.”
  • dunpeal 8y ago
    Despicable. Seems like MA is one of the worst states as far as non-compete enforcement goes. I remember reading analysis that non-competes would generally be unenforceable against terminated employees even in states that do typically enforce them.