Representatives of MassPort briefed legislative offices today about the FAA’s proposal for a satellite-guided airplane route that would reduce net noise pollution in the Greater Boston area. They indicated that an increase in noise levels in communities like Belmont and Watertown would be negligible and that no Boston neighborhood would see any increase in noise levels. …
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will, thanks for sponsoring such an important piece of legislation. i’ve signed over a dozen non-competes in software and life science industries on both coasts. too often they lead to ill-will and excessively long legal discussions leading to acceptance of a intentionally vague document, because its “standard” and/or “un-enforceable” i’ve come to understand, however, that …
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If the purpose of non-competition agreements is to preserve companies’ ownership of specific technologies or intellectual property developed by and legaly ownable by them, then non-competetion should be STRICTLY limited just to those items, and not allowed to effect a blanket and open-ended suffocation of further innovation by the employee (once he/she leaves the company). …
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In technical fields, scientists and development engineers are subject to NCAs, but so are quality engineers, technical writers, and UX people, to name a few, often because they work in the engineering part of the organization. However, non-engineers are not about to apply what they know about their last company’s products to those of the …
Employers, large and small can be damaged by employees moving to the competition. When this happens, it is not only the “employers” that are damaged, but also fellow employees, co-workers and team members who may be damaged by both losing the expertise of the co-worker and by potential weakening of the overall company effort in …
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