States should ban contracts barring employees from seeking higher pay at a rival
Non compete contracts and non poaching agreements are insidious and <i>should</i> be illegal. Ilegal, not just unenforceable.<p>But, among the many imbalances between employees and employers... few are as easy to fix. A major imbalance is information.<p>One radical idea is salary transparency. It would be an emotionally difficult transition, but I think the effect on salaries would be transformational.<p>Information is, a big part of what markets <i>are</i>. If you are negotiating salary armed with the same information your counterpart has, you are in a much better situation.  At the very least, it would help those people who are the worst at negotiating and have an employer that will take advantage of this.<p>Eliminate anti competition agreements, in a year you may find a measurable marginal effect. Publish all salaries and the effects will be everywhere.