Gotta love a shitty repub SCOTUS. Its awesome.
Fuck Texas, residents of the state can keep their fucking non-competes if they love them so fucking much… elsewhere let’s move ahead with this fucking awesome policy.
If your company has PTO hours and you leave your job in Texas they don’t require you get paid out those hours so they are just lost. My coworker learned that. Absolutely need better worker protections across the board and Non-competes getting tossed is huge.
Honestly, if you’re choosing to live in Texas at this point you should expect to have very few personal rights.
… do you just expect everybody who lives there to pack up and leave? Even though their entire lives might be there and moving costs a ton?
Fuck Texas. Anytime I hear people complain about “Democrat policies” around me, I just wish they’d move to their utopia in Florida, Texas, or any of the other “who’ll come up with the stupidest bullshit freedom-encroaching laws next” red state.
Workers leaving states like CA for Texas are like anti-vaxxers who think vaccines are stupid because they don’t know anyone with polio.
If our country survives for another couple decades, they’ll be so proud of themselves for “inventing” all the same worker protections they left behind. But not before experiencing their economic polio first hand.
It’s just another bullet point in a half century long problem.
The FTC is an independent Federal anti-trust enforcement agency. After SCOTUS 1977 Continental TV v. GTE made the nuance of certain contact terms subjectively legal, allowing mergers likely in the interests of global competition, the FTC has been effectively neutered. The only significant action has been the breakup of the Bells in 1982 and some Microsoft anti-Netscape gibberish around 1999.
The FTC has effectively lost every significant case it’s brought since about 1970. Consumers haven’t had any significant protections since 1982, more than forty years ago.
Yeah, it does seem like enforcement is a futile exercise that’s permitted to happen for performative purpose while nothing gets done.
This sort of capture is pretty standard in other federal regulatory domains.
You either regulate pro industry or you won’t regulate at all. There is really no solution being proposed or really this sort of things is not even knowledged in these circles since people are making careers.
Weird cause I’ve got the FTC act right here. Says this:
(a) Declaration of unlawfulness; power to prohibit unfair practices; inapplicability to foreign trade (1) Unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce, are hereby declared unlawful.
And then later on it has this whole entire section where it lays out the process for how the FTC is supposed to make rules in regards to unfair or deceptive practices
Except as provided in subsection (h) of this section, the Commission may prescribe– (A) interpretive rules and general statements of policy with respect to unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce (within the meaning of section 45(a)(1) of this title), and (B) rules which define with specificity acts or practices which are unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce (within the meaning of section 45(a)(1) of this title)
And more sections about how they can enforce those rules on individual rule breakers.
Sure sounds like congress was trying to give the FTC the authority to make rules about unfair competition. Both general rules and with “specificity” apparently. Specifically here, non compete agreements have been declared an unfair practice and they followed all rule making procedures as laid out in the law.
You missed the news where the Supremos say they’re the only regulators that matter now. In the decision before that they legalized bribery.
Not bribery, just a surprise gift after doing a favor without being promised anything in return! Totally different thing, you guys!! /s
This is why we can’t have nice things.
There’s so much bullshit going on in courts lately. It’s hard to keep up enough to know if something is good or bad. It’s starting to get fucking exhausting.
“court ruling blocks decision to block court decision to block court decision to ban plumbuses from not not being not sold in stores” - that’s every other court releated headline.
To sum up: we recently got the awesome FTC instruction that noncompete agreements are disallowed in almost all cases.
Noncompete agreements keep workers from being able to work in their trained field just because they previously worked somewhere else in that field and had to sign a paper to do so. They’re a tool used to harm worker power; traditionally for knowledge workers, but now it’s being used all over the place.
The judge SC said, you can’t ban those. Noncompetes are cool and good. Fuck workers.
EDIT: This was a 5th circuit judge, so not the USSC. A little below that level.
