Abuse of non-compete clauses. Example: "Even taking a simple job like handing out leaflets on the street could be ruled as violating the non-compete clause."

"Experts warn that the indiscriminate use of such clauses is restricting job mobility, stifling career growth, and suppressing innovation, ultimately distorting fair competition and contributing to broader social challenges."

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1017499

#China #Work #NonCompeteClauses #Workers #RIghts

This week featured vastly less travel than last week, but it also afforded me the rare experience of hearing an executive-branch appointee burst into song. And at the end of it, I carved out some time to write a post for Patreon readers about how certain PR pitches come with either a request or a stipulation that I cover the subject for a particular outlet.

4/23/2024: T-Mobile Adds New Fixed Wireless Plans: One for Home, One for the Road, PCMag

Of all of T-Mobile’s announcements Tuesday, the unlimited-data version of its new Away fixed-wireless plan was easily the most interesting.

4/23/2024: FTC Votes to Ban Non-Compete Clauses, PCMag

I wrote an update to the post I’d filed more than a year earlier when the Federal Trade Commission had started this rule-making process, explaining the particulars of the new FTC rule and noting the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s plans to sue to overturn this ban.

4/25/2024: Feds Try Breaking Out Into Song to Get People to Take Ransomware Seriously, PCMag

I spent Wednesday at a conference in Washington hosted by the Institute for Security and Technology, then wrote this recap Thursday that led off with Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency director Jen Easterly singing a bit from an upcoming remake of Schoolhouse Rock’s “I’m Just A Bill.”

4/27/2024: Ep 99 SmartTechCheck Podcast – TikTok, smartphones and children, FCC broadband labels mandate, Mark Vena

I joined my tech-analyst friend’s podcast to discuss the new law requiring TikTok owner ByteDance to sell that social platform, the FCC’s broadband-labels regulation, how harmful smartphones might be to kids, and other tech topics.

Updated 5/5/2024 to add a link to the Patreon post.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/04/28/weekly-output-t-mobile-adds-fixed-wireless-plans-ftc-bans-non-compete-clauses-ransomware-prevention-mark-vena-podcast/

#cybersecurity #fixedWireless #FTCNonCompeteBan #informationSecurity #infosec #JenEasterly #MarkVena #nonCompeteClauses #ransomware #SchoolhouseRock #TMobile #TMobileHome5G #TMobileHomeInternet

I know this won’t be popular to say, but I don’t believe this will stand in the long-run.

The Chamber of Commerce has already announced that it will be suing the FTC. And there will likely be many corporate lawsuits.

#NonCompete
#NonCompeteClauses
#business

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/23/success/ftc-bans-non-compete-clauses/index.html

FTC Passes Ban On Non-Compete Agreements
#News #Politics #2024election #ElectionLine #FTC #JoeBiden #LinaKhan #Noncompeteclauses

https://deadline.com/2024/04/non-compete-ban-ftc-1235893007/

The Federal Trade Commission proposed a rule that would ban U.S. employers from imposing #NoncompeteClauses on workers that prohibit their employees from joining a competitor, typically for a period of time, after they leave the company. #WorkCulture

https://abc7chicago.com/amp/ftc-noncompete-agreement-clause-jobs/12680818/

FTC Pulls BRILLIANT Move To Increase Your Paycheck

https://youtu.be/aNzgs0NfGD4

#news #politics #uspolitics #therationalnational #ftc #wages #noncompeteclauses #federaltradecommission

#FTC Proposes Rule to Ban #NoncompeteClauses, Which Hurt Workers and Harm Competition

This would be great news for workers, even in Cali where they're pretty much unenforceable.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/01/ftc-proposes-rule-ban-noncompete-clauses-which-hurt-workers-harm-competition

#noncompete