Businesses should not be allowed to impose certain terms and conditions on their employees. "Non-compete" is one of those conditions.
The relationship between employer and employee is inherently unequal and businesses tend to do everything they can to impose "contracts of adhesion" unless curbed.
A free market in labor would fix such problems. Businesses tend to do everything they can do to prevent a free market in labor.
It is not that business executives are inherently bad. It is that the incentives and greatest profits go to the ones who are bad, unless they are restrained by laws and customs.
I am not in favor of this court ruling.
This ruling has nothing to do with declaring non-compete rulings good, bad, or indifferent. It shuts down an unlawful action by a Federal agency that didn’t follow its own rules
For that reason this ruling is to be applauded. If Congress wants to ban non-compete agreements they can pass a law and send it to the President for his signature. But for a President to simply order it and command some faceless bureaucrats to write a rule for the entire nation flies in the face of the Constitution.
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The politicized federal courts have gotten the populace used to the idea that results I agree with are correct rulings, and vice versa. This court properly found that the making of this rule was outside the agency’s powers. If you want this to be the law, lobby Congress to make it the law, rather than imposing it via the fiat of unelected bureaucrats
I have to agree with you.
Markets should be free.
The ground should be level.
Contracts come under state law, not federal law. It’s not a question of whether non-compete agreements are good or bad on their merits. It’s a simple matter of whether a federal agency should have any role in them at all.
So?
Don't like it, be your own boss.
“Businesses should not be allowed to impose certain terms and conditions on their employees”.
- You are not a slave and you are not compelled by force to work for any given employer so how is anything being imposed? If you don’t like the terms and conditions look elsewhere for a job.
“The relationship between employer and employee is inherently unequal”
- Sometimes the employer will have the upper hand and at others the employee will have the upper hand. No relationship is inherently equal or unequal. No one forces anyone to enter into an unequal relationship.
Want to have the upper hand? work for an idiot at subpar wages. You will have the supper hand. Want to work without a noncompete? then find an employer who will view you and compensate you as a future competitor.
“It is not that business executives are inherently bad. “
- All people are inherently bad or do you believe in the innate goodness of people? Humans are born in need of redemption into a fallen world. Employers are no more or less “inherently” bad than anyone else. Including the “inherently” bad employee.