Lauren Weber
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740 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2017
last heard Dec 2024
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That's a good question.
Coca-Cola has a very strong interest in protecting the secret formula for Coke.
Same thing for a lot of scientific developments or advances.
But again, the indiscriminate use of these agreements has meant that companies are arguing that
anything can be confidential information or proprietary information, whether it's a customer list or how you were trained for your job.
I interviewed a security guard who was making about $11 an hour and he was threatened with a lawsuit.
He actually was eventually sued by his former employer when he quit and tried to take another job as a security guard.
And when I asked the
the former employer's lawyer, you know, what confidential information did this person have access to?
He said, well, you know, we invested a lot in training him and, you know, through the training he learned our training methods, he learned our proprietary security guard systems and technologies and things like that, along with customer information.
But
You know, it's very subjective what is proprietary information or not.
And at the moment, we kind of leave it up to courts to hammer that out.
But a lot of workers don't have the resources or the knowledge to hire a lawyer to fight this in court.
Yeah.
Some states have limits in place already.
It might be something relating to, let's see, Washington state not long ago said that you can't impose a non-compete agreement on anybody earning less than $100,000 a year.
In a few states, including California, which is an important example, the legislature there has basically said non-compete agreements are not enforceable.
So it
Generally speaking, companies know better than to even try to do a non-compete in California.
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