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Blanchimont
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 Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2019 2:11 pm
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| Quote: | | ... or you can't work at another company in the same industry for a year after you've quit... |
Talk about undermining the industry, literally sawing off the branch you're sitting on. It's a creative industry we're talking about after all. 
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kinghumanity
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Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2019 6:00 pm
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| Quote: | | ... or you can't work at another company in the same industry for a year after you've quit... |
The United States has this too, in Silicon Valley. Tech companies make you sign non-compete clauses that forbid you to work for competitors after you leave, in order for all the big companies to avoid having to compete with better working conditions and more pay. Not sure how legal or how enforceable it is, but knowing the political culture of the US, I wouldn't be surprised at all if it's all completely legal, or at the very least, abused by employers who don't let their employees know their rights.
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Yttrbio
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Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2019 6:20 pm
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It depends where you are in the US. In California, non-competes are unenforceable, and a bunch of big tech companies have been investigated under anti-trust laws regarding whether they had agreements not to go after each others' employees.
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luisedgarf
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Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2019 8:49 pm
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| kinghumanity wrote: |
| Quote: | | ... or you can't work at another company in the same industry for a year after you've quit... |
The United States has this too, in Silicon Valley. Tech companies make you sign non-compete clauses that forbid you to work for competitors after you leave, in order for all the big companies to avoid having to compete with better working conditions and more pay. Not sure how legal or how enforceable it is, but knowing the political culture of the US, I wouldn't be surprised at all if it's all completely legal, or at the very least, abused by employers who don't let their employees know their rights. |
Considering how Common Law works, that would be a possibility. That would be more difficult to enforce in other countries when the laws are written in stone and cannot be interpreted in different ways at will.
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