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In Germany in order for a non-compete agreement to be valid a company has to pay an employee money for the non-compete period. 50% of an average of last 3 month
by drogus 4y ago
In Germany in order for a non-compete agreement to be valid a company has to pay an employee money for the non-compete period. 50% of an average of last 3 months of employment. With this law I would be actually quite happy for a company to include a non-compete clause in the contract.
- yrgulation 4y agoThat’s a nice and probably fair law. If you do wish to restrict your employees in what they do post employment then you need to pay them. I wouldnt mind sitting around getting half pay.
- ghaff 4y agoYou might not. Im guessing the person with a mortgage and family to support might feel differently. Especially if it’s half pay of base salary.
- yrgulation 4y agoI agree yes, not saying it should be the norm and i am totally against non competes.
- drogus 4y agoUsually you can still find jobs easily. Most of these laws also bar companies from defining it very broadly, so I don't think they could make a non-compete like "any programming job"
- ghaff 4y agoNo. Many people cannot just find a new high-paying job quickly/easily. Outside of development specifically I have heard first hand examples that were essentially the equivalent of “any programming job.”
- aidenn0 4y agoIt would be financially devastating for me to halve my salary for a year; perhaps if the non-compete weren't too broad, I could make some of that up with contract work, but I'd also be paying for healthcare for my family which adds up as well.
- drogus 4y agoYeah, I absolutely couldn't survive on 50% of my current salary, but as far as I know non-compete can't also be "any programming job". So given I sign a non-compete with, for example, a fintech company, it would be totally fine to join company doing something completely different. But then with half of my salary already paid I could do like 4 days week and not necessarily go with a highest paying option.
- squokko 4y agoIt should be 125%. Make them really really want it.
- drogus 4y agoSounds good to me!