• maxinstuff@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Aren’t non-competes basically unenforceable anyway? At least for individual contributors. You can’t contractually ban an individual from making money from their literal profession.

    Senior execs and company founders with privileged information are a different story.

    Not American, but in my country non-compete clauses are routinely put into employment contracts even though they have been demonstrated to be illegal in most cases.

    It’s simply used to intimidate the ignorant.

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      4 months ago

      Depends on how bad you want to go to court, and how big of an asshole your former company is.