Many noncompete agreements that employers make staffers sign to bar them from leaving to take certain jobs with rivals or in nearby markets violate federal labor law, says one of the government’s most senior labor lawyers.
The widely-used noncompetes can make workers hesitate about threatening to resign to improve job conditions and pay or carrying through on the threat, said Jennifer Abruzzo, general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board.
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