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« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2019, 03:08:20 AM » |
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So this bill bans two practices:
Non-compete clauses prevent employees from entering into competition with their employer at any point in the future; the premise for using them is related to intellectual property, but there are already laws against intellectual property theft and non-compete clauses can often go much further than this. They can cripple people's careers by preventing them from getting hired in their chosen profession, and are just all around awful for the rights of employees.
Restrictive Employment Agreements, as defined in this legislation, are agreements between employers not to hire each other's employees or ex-employees. Such agreements diminish the ability of workers to find positions outside their present employers and thus makes them more dependent to the whims of that present employer. These collusion schemes thus greatly harm the rights of employees and makes it much easier to exploit them.
Both need to go; there are a few cases where noncompete agreements can be useful, and exceptions have been carved out for these. For the other cases, as well as for restrictive employment agreements, I wholeheartedly support banning them and am glad to sponsor this bill in the Senate.
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