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by connicpu 1474 days ago
Washington has actually successfully enforced some of its worker protection rules on a national scale in the past. As a condition of having the harsh penalties for their in-state violations dropped, they got fast food companies to agree to drop non-compete agreements from all franchise agreements nationwide[1]

Whether it happens as a direct consequence of the word of the law feels less relevant than the fact they made it happen in practice via a settlement.

[1]: https://table.skift.com/2018/07/12/some-fast-food-chains-dro...