[cma]

Ultimately that is still very anticompetitive, it just asks for more compensation to the worker but is still paying them to do nothing and hurting competition, a sure sign of a broken system (paying people to do nothing is usually a charged leveled at very broken bureaucracies).

[andrewjf]

For sure - I would like to see non-competes banned outright, of course.

I was just replying to OP for implying that a worker should get a reduced (i.e. proportional) payout for being denied employment at a competitor. The "losing" employer should pay substantially for such a egregious act and the employee should benefit.

[bobthepanda]

This is already done at financial sectors in some countries, mostly to prevent immediate poaching of clients and transfers of strategies.

In six months everything will be out of date.