California nixes noncompete clauses

As another example of right-wing hypocrisy, the right-wingers who favor work-for-less laws are usually the same ones who support letting businesses enforce noncompete clauses. Noncompete clauses are rules that employers impose on workers that forbid them from working for a competitor for months after they've resigned.

In other words, the same people who back misnamed "right-to-work" (union-busting) laws support infringing on your right to work for your former employer's competitor.

But now the California Supreme Court has correctly ruled that noncompetes are illegal. They pointed out that state law has specifically forbidden noncompetes since 1872.

Noncompetes run afoul of basic rights of workers. Workers are people, not company property. If you're no longer working for someone, it's none of your former employer's damn business where you work next.

(Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/08/BUUH12716R.DTL&type=printable)