re: Non-Compete agreements are now illegal nationwide!

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Why is the federal government involved in consensual employment contracts?

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I have never willingly consented to signing one in my career. I've always needed to sign it if I wanted the job. My balls were in a rope and I was hanging from it.

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Why is the federal government involved in consensual employment contracts?

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It's not really consensual though. People signed them because they had to, to get the job. It's one thing to agree to certain bullshite while employed for someone, but an employer should not have any say once you've parted ways.

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Why is the federal government involved in consensual employment contracts?

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Now do minimum wage.

Why is it illegal for workers to underbid their competitors at a certain threshold that applies to every US State unless that state makes it illegal to work for less than the national minimum?

How many teenagers would get a job sooner when they don’t need higher wages?

Because most non C-level employees do not sign employment contracts, they sign employment agreements. There is a significant difference.

An agreement doesn’t bind the company to the employee and vice versa. A contract does in that the employee is compensated if the contract period is not completed. A contract also defines a period of employment. If you carefully read most of the employment contracts you’re presented, almost all of them specifically state they are not a contract.