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Negotiate for the removal of these clauses from your contract and don't sign it if they won't remove them. Sometimes this may mean passing on a job but if every

• pretoriusB 14y ago
  >Negotiate for the removal of these clauses from your contract and don't sign it if they won't remove them. Sometimes this may mean passing on a job but if everyone did this then employers wouldn't try to get away with it. The problem is that the effectiveness of this relies on the bargaining power of the employees, which, in a "buyer's market" is not that much. Better to get the law to change to forbid such abuses for everyone.
  • bconway 14y ago
    If that was the case, sure. But in what world is this a buyer's market? At the last tech meetup I went to: Employers looking for developers: 11 Developers looking for work: 2 Austin, TX, for reference.
• ChuckMcM 14y ago
  In this case Sony is trying to change the agreement post employment. I wish the OP had said what HR said about ownwership of the sex tape, I really would have liked to use that example with the Google lawyers to see where they came down on it. I don't doubt that future contracts will say "We reserve the right to update this in the future as conditions change in order to remain compliant with applicable regulations and laws and in order to protect the interests of the company." Once you sign that, even with a permissive clause, they come back later than blam! Change it and you've pre-agreed to their changes which can now be much more restrictive.
• benwerd 14y ago
  In smaller companies you can sometimes rewrite the contract. I've done this, specifically to remove this clause.