I’m an Apple customer but this is straight up wrong. Non-compete clauses this broad are ridiculous and practically stop ex-employees working anywhere they’re actually skilled to work. It quite literally ends someone’s career after their tenure.
If you’re expertise is SoC design and implementation, to be contractually restricted from working anywhere else that does SoC-related business is effectively kicking you out of the very industry and job pool you’re capable of working. Your mobility is totally stifled.
These kinds of restrictive covenants need to be outlawed or at least be limited to a short time frame no more than six months, requiring ex employers to pay the ex employee during this time if made redundant or fired or requiring the incumbent employer to pay the new employee during this time until they’re legally able to work again.
Hopefully this case goes against Apple favour and sets a strong precedent against absurd non compete clauses like this.
Non-compete clauses should be illegal (or done like in Denmark, like the example of our fellow commenter here)
They’re illegal in the province I live in. They were all voided a few years ago.
In Denmark, non compete clauses like these require the old employer to pay you for the period you’re not allowed to compete.
Buy it or kill it. Every big corp ever.
They killed DarkSky. We need to break up Apple.
I think it goes back to Rockefeller and Standard Oil. Buy or squash competition until you are the only one standing. Certainly Bill Gates did this and quite aggressively at times.
I’m sure they have an NDA and Apple hasn’t been innovative in a while. Even if you count the tampon ear thingies.
Have you used an intel mac vs even the entry level m1? It sure feels like an innovative difference.
(to be clear fuck apple and all anticompetitive monopolies, oligarchs, etc)
Since when is trying to keep someone from earning a living in their field of expertise because they worked for you count as ‘legitimate’?
