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."

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Re:$15 trill economy dosent have a real welfare sy

[Snork Asaurus]

You're right of course. Killing the economy is the domain of government, coporations, their boards and CEO's, not the common man.

Re:It is so simple...

[Copid]

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?