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by rgbrenner
1193 days ago
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If that’s all they were, then we would have never seen companies create broad non competes that deprive a person of their livelihood. I agree that’s one purpose, but I think another is to penalize the employee for leaving, discouraging them from doing so… and as a result increasing retention and/or reducing the pressure on the company to deliver increased benefits and wages in the future. |
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Interestingly, when I am presented with an employment contract, there are two things that often appear and that I always require to be removed: noncompete clauses and wording that assigns the rights to all of the work I do (even work that does not use my employer's time, resources, or knowledge) to my employer.
I have never once had an employer refuse to remove or modify those terms, but a couple of times it took a bit of negotiation to get there.