&gt;Interesting here is that it&#x27;s the new employer firing an employee for non compete<p>She wasn&#x27;t technically fired for non-compete. From the article:<p>&gt; On the application there was a question asking me to check a box acknowledging I wasn’t subject to any restrictive covenants that would prohibit me from doing my job at Reuters. I checked it.<p>[...]<p>&gt;I was technically fired for “dishonesty,” because of the box I had checked.