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by x0x0 3958 days ago
Here, btw, is the case

https://casetext.com/posts/continued-employment-adequate-con...

My understanding is, if your Hawaiian employer demanded you sign a noncompete, you could quit on the spot and the noncompete would not apply. Is that correct?

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> My understanding is, if your Hawaiian employer demanded you sign a noncompete, you could quit on the spot and the noncompete would not apply. Is that correct?

Yes.

(IANAL)

It might instead be beneficial to you, in terms of unemployment benefits and such, to instead refuse to sign and allow them to terminate you instead.

That would have to be true, wouldn't it? How could your employer hold you to a contract you didn't sign?