Non-Compete Clauses Violate Workers’ Rights, California Supreme Court Rules
Monday, August 11, 2008
California employers cannot prevent their management-level workers from jumping ship to a competing firm or leaving to start their own businesses, the state’s Supreme Court has ruled. Non-compete clauses, which may be written into employment contracts, violate a former employee’s right to be free to work where and for whom they want and discourage competition in the workforce, the court said in a unanimous ruling issued August 6. The court was interpreting a state law that had been on the state’s books since 1872. The California high court noted that such employment restrictions may be legal in limited circumstances, such…Continue » Posted in Corporate Fraud