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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses his own experience with non-compete agreements and whether you should sign one.
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These agreements are unenforceable anymore. The empirical evidence conducted by labor economists and pure researchers shows that companies are not damaged by the loss of a top producer at all……….in fact, in a majority of cases, the plaintiff actually sees an increase in revenue and profit when the employee leaves (no commissions, salary and no loss of legacy clients in most cases.) The plaintiff company has to show damage and that is very difficult to do so most jurisdictions will not enforce those agreements without substantiated and specific proof that they were financially hurt (and not hurt in a presupposed way or manner) by the employee’s actions after leaving the company.
Dennis, respectfully, there is someone I coach who has to sit out 1 year before he can start a new position. His former employer has chosen to enforce his non-compete even though they have chosen not to enforce others’ and his attorney, a big gun with the California bar has let him know that his employer has won previous cases in the past few years and would win his. In other words, different states have different rules. People need to know what the rules of the road are in their state and whether their employer’s non-compete has already been successfully defended.
I thought California’s legislature had made employment non-competes illegal. I think there it is only “non-solicitation” there meaning he can go to work for a similar employer as long as he doesn’t directly solicit the same customers of his last employer?
Good video, Jeff!
This person isn’t in California AND his attorney is. His firm’s non-compete is enforceable and been successfully defended several times. The hiring firm is a direct competitor and his former is concerned that he knows proprietary marketing secrets (which he does).