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There are often non-compete clauses in employment contracts. Depending on the country, they're not worth the paper they're written on sometimes. In others, le
by DrBazza 3y ago
There are often non-compete clauses in employment contracts. Depending on the country, they're not worth the paper they're written on sometimes. In others, legally binding.
- madeofpalk 3y agoIllegal in California.
- dukeyukey 3y agoMost people don't live in California.
- madeofpalk 3y agoGoogle has some employees in California.
- dymk 3y agoMost people do actually live in California (by plurality)
- alangibson 3y agoAre there any examples of companies successfully enforcing non-competes against rank and file employees? (I'm excluding high value targets like Jeff Dean here where it might actually make sense to put millions in lawyers behind a suit).
- JonChesterfield 3y agoI don't think you get to non-compete people you fire. That's an on-resignation constraint.
- deelowe 3y agoA layoff isn't a firing unless you choose to not accept the package. Accepting a severance is considered voluntary separation. You sign a document stating this.
- flawn 3y agoI'd be genuinely interested what the legal situation here would be, if that's true...
- tauntz 3y agoIt would be rather interesting if it would be legal for me to hire somebody, then fire them the next day and they couldn't compete with me for some period of time. But then again, US employment law is rather different from EU so maybe that's possible there?
- mathgeek 3y agoNon-compete clauses are often part of severance packages. You can choose not to take it, naturally.
- sib 3y agoNot true as a general statement. May be true in certain cases. And certainly, in the case of a layoff (such as this one), with a severance package, a non-compete could be part of the severance agreement. (Or not, depending on locale. For sure not in California.)