White House urges ban on non-compete agreements for many workers
I don't understand why there's so many people in the comments defending non-competes.  They have literally no value to society, or to individual employees.  They are a tool of restrictive coercion to stifle an employees freedom of movement in the job market.Trade secrets, IP, secret sauce: covered by NDA and IP assignment agreementsClient lists, contract terms, sales strategies, reported metrics, financials: covered by NDA and in some cases SEC regulations about insider trading.Etc.The only thing a non-compete does is say that Employee A cannot work in their chosen field for some period of time after they are fired or quit.  In doing so it offers no consideration or compensation typically in the contract.So your employer underpays you by 40% and treats you badly?  You want to leave for greener pastures at that hip new startup that offered you a Senior Engineer gig?  Well, sorry to say you have a mortgage, a wife, and 2 kids and that non-compete says you are only legally allowed to be a burger flipper for two years after quitting, that software engineering is verboten.Totally fair right?If you don't sit on the board of a Fortune 500 company, you have literally no incentive to support non-competes.  There is no rational basis to argue in their favor.  Please learn the difference between NDAs, IP assignment agreements, and non-competes before lending non-competes some mystical powers they don't have.