Some lower-paid workers are fighting back against noncompete clauses that limit their job mobility
May 18, 2019 12:00 p.m. ET
Quitting a job for a better offer is a time-tested method of securing a pay raise, improved working conditions or both. Now a national backlash is building against employers that make such movement harder with noncompete agreements that bar departing employees from taking jobs with industry competitors for certain periods of time. That’s good news for workers, because eliminating barriers to job-hopping could help stir the kind of wage growth workers haven’t seen since before the last recession.
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