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Noncompetes are virtually unenforceable everywhere. Our business law professor told us to ignore them as long as you never accept payment for them. Or you can s
by anon291 3y ago
Noncompetes are virtually unenforceable everywhere. Our business law professor told us to ignore them as long as you never accept payment for them. Or you can simply not sign them.
- tptacek 3y agoI have personal friends who lost jobs when their employers were threatened with interference lawsuits for hiring them while they were bound by a noncompete. More than one. They are not virtually unenforceable.
- anon291 3y agoIt wasn't enforced in your friend's cases though. Their employers got the heebie jeebies. That's an at-will issue. I do agree that the NLRB should go on an advertising campaign to inform employers that previous employers threatening legal action basically have no basis in law and you should just send them a reply saying 'No thanks'. Because that's what you should do in virtually all circumstances.
- kelnos 3y agoI think the distinction doesn't really matter. If an action taken by a company -- even if based on illegal contract terms -- causes harm, then the effect is the same. The idea of the "chilling effect" is predicated on this: if someone can ruin your life even if you are in the right and they are in the wrong, it doesn't matter what the law actually says.
- anon291 3y agoI agree, and I would like to see tougher enforcement of such behavior.