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This is bad news for California. Which states are left with the non-competes?
by rdl 13y ago
This is bad news for California.
Which states are left with the non-competes?
- infinite8s 13y agoNY
- spamizbad 13y agoSeveral. However the strength and scope of these non-competes varies widely. And many companies have clumsily written non-competes in their employee contracts that would never hold up under scrutiny.
- commandar 13y agoGeorgia passed making non-competes enforceable by referendum a few years ago. It passed overwhelmingly and many people attribute that to the ballot item being worded in a stunningly dishonest way. http://ballotpedia.org/Georgia_Employment_Contract_Enforcement,_Amendment_1_(2010) http://ballotpedia.org/Georgia_Employment_Contract_Enforceme...
- ghaff 13y agoMost AFAIK. My understanding (IANAL) is that, in Massachusetts for example, it's not that there are laws explicitly allowing non-competes on the books but, rather, that they're supported by common law spelled out through many precedents related to contract law, employment law, etc. I imagine the situation in many other states is similar. California is unusual in that they have specifically limited non-competes by statute.