Calif. Court Finds Employees Cant Be Forced to Sign Noncompetition Agreements

Calif. Court Finds Employees Can't Be Forced to Sign Noncompetition Agreements The Associated Press

Companies operating in California cannot make employees sign contracts promising not to work for a competitor, a state appellate court ruled. Wednesday's decision rejects 20 years of federal case law that had held the non-competition agreements were legal if they were crafted narrowly enough that an employee who left a company still could work in his or her profession. A federal appellate court 'misapplied' California law on the issue, said the decision by California's 2nd District Court of Appeal.

Nothing new here. Its been widely recognised that absent theft of intellectual property non-compete clauses have been DOA in Kalifornia Kourts for a long time

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This is interesting. I've signed such agreements upon being hired numerous times and never has a company enforced it because when they lay off people during Republican recessions, it's irrelevent.

Or it would be if there were 'Republican recessions'. The last major downturn for example came about when the Irrationally Exuberant Klintoon Bubble popped in Q3/Q4 of 2000.

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