Lauren Weber
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740 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2017
last heard Dec 2024
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Many workers, they show up to work on the first day and they're asked to sit in a room and sign a bunch of HR forms.
This is often one of those forms they sign.
Some people don't even really read the full text of it.
But companies have tried to enforce a lot of these non-competes against...
blue collar workers, people making hourly wages, often not making very much, partly as a labor retention strategy.
You know, they, especially at a, you know, perhaps a time like this, or when the labor market is very tight, they don't want to lose workers.
So one way to try to
keep people working for you and not going across the street to your rival is to ask them to sign one of the agreements and then send them a threatening letter if they quit the job and you hear that they've moved on to another company in the same industry so companies cast a wide net with these agreements do the constraints differ across different levels of employees
Sure.
Another difference between blue collar or hourly wage workers and then white collar or very professional workers who sign these contracts is executives or salespeople, scientists, they might have a lawyer who's looking over their contracts before they sign them.
So they have an opportunity to negotiate.
Another difference is that for those kinds of employees, sometimes they get access to something called garden leave.
What it means basically is if your non-compete says that you can't work in the industry for, say, two years or a year, your former employer might agree to pay you all a part of your salary for that time because they recognize they're taking you out of the labor market and not giving you an opportunity to earn an income during that time.
But blue collar workers or lower wage workers generally don't have that written into their contract.
Many times they don't have an access to an employer to help them negotiate or even sort of understand what the limits of these terms are.
And, you know, usually when you take a job, you're not thinking what's going to happen to me when I quit this job.
You know, sometimes you're even just very grateful to have that job.
And, you know, for all you know, you're going to be there for years.
So it's just it's not top of mind for people.
until they get hit with a threatening letter or a cease and desist letter and are basically told, you know, you have to sit out of the labor market for some amount of time.
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