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Non-Competes Might Mean Loss Of Benefits

Posted by timothy on from the damned-if-do-damned-if-don't dept.

Skapare writes "WashTech is running a story about how having a non-compete agreement could cause loss of unemployment benefits. While non-compete agreements are addressed in unemployment benefits policies, it seems you still get shafted because it forces you to accept any employment outside your field, making it much harder to find work in your field. Personally, I think the employers with whom you have a non-compete agreement should be the ones paying you unemployment benefits."

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  1. Re:It is so simple... by Malcontent · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "It has to be a balance in the system."

    There is a a balance in the system. If you don't like the terms turn the job down.

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  2. Limiting your own freedoms by Tonttoro · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In most societies you are able to limit yourself with many agreements/contracts if you like that. Rightly so in the land of the free too.

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  3. Re:Many years ago, by eht · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fine, don't sign the non compete, but if you do and then think it's too troublesome and break it I think you should be blacklisted. If you can't be trusted to uphold a previous agreement, what's to hold you to any future ones?

    In what part of my previous statement did I condone the practice? All I stated was that I believe you should uphold your end of a contract.