[zopa]

Non-compete clauses are already extremely difficult to enforce. They're traditionally disfavored under common law; get one before a judge and it will frequently be struck out, or at minimum, sharply limited in scope. But it's not about winning an injunction or damages for the employers that use non-competes, it's about using the threat of a lawsuit to keep workers nice and biddable.

So the bill is well worth doing, just people stop writing unenforceable bs into contracts.

[anonymouskimmer]

Even better would be if employment law violations carried with them 3x+ punitive awards instead of just being made whole (while also being required to minimize damages by, e.g., getting another job).

If this existed employers would be much more well behaved, if only because of the number of lawyers who would suddenly be willing to take on lawsuits without retainer.