I have worked as a software engineer for the last 10 years. I have been fortunate enough to work at a company that doesn’t require a non-compete, but I have a number of friends who signed one. It’s a tricky subject. On the one hand, there are some fields where a non-compete is essential to …
Non-competition Agreements
Small business doesn’t need non-competes
I have run a small business for nearly 10 years. I have never used a non-compete agreement because I believe if an employee stays with my company only because of a piece of paper, they are not going to be a very happy or productive employee. i did one time lose business to an employee …
Non-competition Agreements: Will’s Common sense reform bill
Sen. Brownsberger’s Reform Bill is common sense. No person should be banned from finding employment. Six months is a reasonable length of time. Actually, I think no time should be put upon people but I believe in compromise and your suggestion is workable for both the employee and employer. As a country, we should not …
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Share your Stories
As we start the session taking a fresh approach to the non-competition problem, it would be helpful to collect stories about situations created by non-competition agreements. Click here for more background. Please share your story as a reply to this topic.
2013 Reform Bill
In 2013, Representative Ehrlich and I have filed a simplified version of our non-competition reform bill. Click here for the story behind this legislation. Click here for fuller background. The basic elements of the bill are: An employee non-competition agreement longer than six months is presumed unreasonable — under current judge-made law, agreements of a …
Reforming Non-Competition Agreements
It’s to reform non-competition agreements. They are often unfair to employees and may be strangling our tech sector.