Make it that non-competes are enforced only if the employer is willing to pay the employee's lost wages & benefits in full until the expiry date. If the employ

Make it that non-competes are enforced only if the employer is willing to pay the employee's lost wages & benefits in full until the expiry date. If the employer does not want to enforce it, then they don't have to pay. A confidentiality agreement is completely separate from this.