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"The American economy is awash with opportunities to work for small businesses, with employees free to move around and chart their own destiny. " If they all a
by hutzlibu 3y ago
"The American economy is awash with opportunities to work for small businesses, with employees free to move around and chart their own destiny. "
If they all are all happy and free to chart their own destiny - why are those contract things then pretty much standard in the US (as it seems to me)?
And maybe things are not perfect on either side of the atlantic?
I would be fine with less regulations and hire and fire here in europe btw - but I would be not OK, having to sign such contracts. But I don't see, why we can't have both. Meaning employee respecting contracts - but not mandated from above.
- winstonprivacy 3y ago> why are those contract things then pretty much standard in the US (as it seems to me)? They aren't standard by any means.
- halostatue 3y agoSeverance NDAs and noncompetes have been increasingly used against minimum wage workers. Imagine not being able to get a job at Quiznos because you worked at Jimmy John's, which at one point had such a noncompete. (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-jimmyjohns-settlement-idUSKBN13W2JA https://www.reuters.com/article/us-jimmyjohns-settlement-idU...) When things that we are used to (but unhappy with) because our jobs involve a lot of proprietary technological secrets trickle down to sandwich shop minimum wage workers…it’s not worth saying that they’re not standard. There’s a reason that multiple state legislatures are working to ban noncompetes entirely, and it’s not because they’re uncommon. https://archive.is/kLOFV https://archive.is/kLOFV