So “intellectual property” is torpedo’d?
I thought pesky Constitution says Congress makes laws.
This is an unconstitutional imposition on the right to contract freely. As a rule it should have no effect. As a law if passed by congress and signed by the president it would be struck down as unconstitutional.
These people have no idea how businesses work.
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90% of the agencies this government has are illegal (under need and authorization in the Constitution,) IMO.
It is long overdue to generally get rid of noncompetes. Nondisclosures still apply, good luck on most companies enforcing them.
Thank goodness we have unelected bureaucrats to explain things for us.
I wonder if this applies to a noncompete agreement as part of the sale of a business? It makes much more sense there and I quite reasonable.
I generally believe non-competes should be eliminated for many positions, I don’t believe in government bureaucrats making decisions like this. This should be debated by and voted on by our representatives. Unfortunately that may not work though because many of the politicians are bought and paid for.
One example I saw of a non-compete was a $11 and hour security guard could not get another job because of a non-compete. That is an outrageous abuse of such agreements.
Such as when "workers" (isn't that a Marxist word for them?) photocopy or phone-swipe reams of stats and trade secrets and bring them to a new company or venture for bonus compensation?
I always have found non-compete clauses an annoying idea to my personal self-interest. But so what? This decision is plainly unconstitutional over-reach. If you don't like that clause in the contract, your choice is to negotiate it away--or work somewhere else. There's no gun to your head.
This is unfair to businesses, and done by fiat. It needs to be reversed by SCOTUS.
Noncompetes are a widespread and often exploitative practice imposing contractual conditions that prevent workers from taking a new job.
Isn’t that how D.C. operates now the nation has to lower it’s standards pure liberalism in action.
Illegals have now options too they can bring a weed eater to the office.
“Massive change to law through regulation and not legislation.”
Progressivism has been this for over 120 years now.
This action by the FTC demonstrates why ALL federal regulations should not arise under the sole authority of the federal agencies. Every regulation should begin as no more than a proposal to Congress, and as a proposal that it should require the entire House and Senate legislative process (put before appropriate committees, voted up or down in the committees, offered from the committees to the full House and/or Senate body, with amendments accepted and needing an up or down vote by the full House and Senate) in order to become law, not a Congreessional rubber stamp over an agencies new entry in a federal register.
The question is whether the worker was hired because they already had a unique skill set that the company desired, or if the worker was new and the company invested in them by training them to do the job?
Nobody wants a newly trained worker to leave the company after 9-12 months and take their newly-gained knowledge to a competitor.
-PJ