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by winstonprivacy 1057 days ago
> why are those contract things then pretty much standard in the US (as it seems to me)?

They aren't standard by any means.

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Severance NDAs and noncompetes have been increasingly used against minimum wage workers. Imagine not being able to get a job at Quiznos because you worked at Jimmy John's, which at one point had such a noncompete. (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-jimmyjohns-settlement-idU...)

When things that we are used to (but unhappy with) because our jobs involve a lot of proprietary technological secrets trickle down to sandwich shop minimum wage workers…it’s not worth saying that they’re not standard.

There’s a reason that multiple state legislatures are working to ban noncompetes entirely, and it’s not because they’re uncommon.

https://archive.is/kLOFV