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Non-Competes Might Mean Loss Of Benefits
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."
I'm not allowed to sysadmin Windows 2000-through-2005, but haha they called it Windows XP.
You're right of course. Killing the economy is the domain of government, coporations, their boards and CEO's, not the common man.
Sigs are bad for your health.
Can't find the original story I read, but I remember that Lucent once tried to sue a number of former employees who left to join Cisco. IIRC the judge laughed the suit out of court partly due to the fact that he found Lucent's technology to be so far behind Cisco's at the time that he couldn't see any chance of Cisco actually being able to use any of Lucent's obsolete "secrets".
The best reference to the case I could find just mentions that the judge couldn't find any injury to Lucent but also that he found fault the management practices that caused them to leave in the first place. I'm not sure what happened on appeal.
My next sig will be ready soon, but friends can beat the rush!
didn't sign non-compete agreement with SCO. If so, you'd be required stay out of all companies in association with UNIX, Linux, and since Microsoft admitted UNIX licensing, Windows. Yes, that's basically the entire world, and that's what SCO is competing with. :)
And by the time SCO completed the world domination, you'd have to relocate to Mars.
Frankly, I don't know the legality of this agreement...
So you, as an employer, and owner of a company wrote up an NCA that you have all employee's sign, but you didn't check to see if it was actually legal? Amazing.
Better yet, tell the company that if they fire you, the agree not to produce the same goods or services they produced for a period of one year. Work for a memory manufacturer? Get it put in your contract that once you're gone, you'll stop working for memory manufacturers for a year and they can produce baskets and sock puppets for a year. Fair enough, yes?
An interesting anagram of "BANACH TARSKI" is "BANACH TARSKI BANACH TARSKI"
You: You say this like there must be a really long list of nice things. Do tell...
Another nice thing about living in Nebraska, presumably, is it means you don't live in Kansas. :)
"But, if you're out of a job, you're probably not in the best position to fight anything."
:)
If you're violating a non-compete agreement, you're not out of a job.
Hey I think I worked for them! Wait, didn't most of us work for those guys? You know, the ones who got bought up by the big bank? Or did they file bankruptcy?
At least I got my red stapler.