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>>pg_123+(OP)
> New York may ban noncompete employment agreements and Wall Street is not happy

I though capitalism (Wall Street) was about competition. /s

>>hulitu+p4
It's about voluntary contracts, too.

>>eru+J6
Agreements between parties of vastly unequal power and alternatives are not voluntary.

>>Paul-C+qe
If they aren't voluntarily, they wouldn't be enforceable in court.

What you're trying to say is there's limited alternatives. (The most obvious alternative is to not take the job)

>>cj+Wi
No. What I'm saying is "take a job with a non-compete or starve" is not a situation in which a worker can make a voluntary choice, "enforceable in court" be damned. Not to mention, such agreements are often not stated up front as part of the job description.

>>Paul-C+dj
> What I'm saying is "take a job with a non-compete or starve" is not a situation in which a worker can make a voluntary choice, [...]

That may or may not be true, but it's not the situation workers are in. Have you looked at unemployment rates in the US recently?

> Not to mention, such agreements are often not stated up front as part of the job description.

Yes, but they are part of the contract that you can read, before you sign.