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That does sound anti-competitive. Imagine if Google poaches hot people in industry and then just sits on them during a critical market time, doing nothing, beca
by threatofrain 2y ago
That does sound anti-competitive. Imagine if Google poaches hot people in industry and then just sits on them during a critical market time, doing nothing, because they don't have any particular work for them, they just don't want them working for the competition.
Those garden contracts sound like a variation of the same idea.
Anyways, if I understand FCC's position right, they also had nuance for specific non-competes.
- bobthepanda 2y agoat least with garden leave the person is at least getting compensated. it's substantially better than a minimum wage worker at ~~Subway~~ Jimmy John's being told they're not getting paid and they also can't make sandwiches for six months.
- threatofrain 2y agoThat's one scenario I'm afraid of... that businesses have rational incentive to push boundaries for workers that aren't ultra high value, and that terms like these basically force you to stay at Subways.
- mikestew 2y agoGP’s comment was not a hypothetical, the names were just changed to protect the guilty: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/22/jimmy-johns-drops-non-compete-clauses-following-settlement.html https://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/22/jimmy-johns-drops-non-compet...
- bobthepanda 2y agowell, i mixed up which sandwich chain it was. but yeah.
- bobthepanda 2y agothey already do this. we may as well force companies to pay up or shut up when it comes to noncompetes.