Once again, Trump sides with Bosses over Employees

[rightwinger]

Noncompete clauses in employment contracts have been used to block employees from getting a better job or starting their own business. They are used to stop competition and hold down wages.
President Biden had pushed legislation to limit Noncompetes and allow employees to take their skills where they are best compensated.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trump-administration-drops-defense-ban-employee-noncompete-agreements-2025-09-06/

More than 20% of U.S. workers have signed noncompete agreements, according to the FTC. The agency, in adopting the rule, had said the agreements limit worker mobility and suppress wages and competition for labor.

 

[1srelluc]

Typical dem Union-ish claptrap.

 

[rightwinger]

Traditionally, noncompete clauses like the one Kenny signed were found in contracts for white-collar executives or other high-profile employees who might have access to company trade secrets or develop personal relationships to clients

But after the recession, when jobs were hard to come by and workers had less leverage to negotiate the terms of their employment, noncompete clauses started appearing in contracts for workers in low-wage or middle-income jobs like sandwich makers, and they remain a road block for everyone from hair stylists to security guards and house cleaners. The scope of their reach is difficult to determine because many workers don’t realize they’ve signed a noncompete clause until leaving a job.

Noncompete clauses: They're not just for executives anymore – Center for Public Integrity

Oct. 24, 2018: This story has been corrected. This story was co-published by The Guardian. Michael Kenny’s 13-day stint at Critical Intervention Services (CIS), a Florida private security company in Florida, was short but consequential. The employment contract he signed with CIS in January, 2017...

publicintegrity.org

 

[rightwinger]

Typical dem Union-ish claptrap.

Has Trump ever stood up for employees?

 

[Moonglow]

Typical dem Union-ish claptrap.

Yet the unions voted fer Trump and his claptrap....

 

[Moonglow]

Has Trump ever stood up for employees?

Nope, he is a boss man only and hates the working class.

 

[Mr Natural]

Has Trump ever stood up for employees?

Of course not.

Employers hate employees.

 

[1srelluc]

Has Trump ever stood up for employees?

Can't say, he's been a boss all his life.

I will say this, he's doing what I "hired" him for.

 

[rightwinger]

Can't say, he's been a boss all his life.

I will say this, he's doing what I "hired" him for.

Suppress wages?

 

[Polishprince]

No one is forced to sign a non-compete. If someone has questions about whether signing one is in their best interests or not , that's why we have lawyers in our society. Run it past the shyster, and he'll give you the plusses and minuses.

I don't see where the government should be banning this kind of thing.

If I owned a sandwich shop, I sure the hell wouldn't want someone I was mentoring to become a first class sandwich artisan to pick up and leave for the competition immediately after I trained him

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

Suppress wages?

Or not paying them at all.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Noncompete clauses in employment contracts have been used to block employees from getting a better job or starting their own business. They are used to stop competition and hold down wages.
President Biden had pushed legislation to limit Noncompetes and allow employees to take their skills where they are best compensated.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trump-administration-drops-defense-ban-employee-noncompete-agreements-2025-09-06/

More than 20% of U.S. workers have signed noncompete agreements, according to the FTC. The agency, in adopting the rule, had said the agreements limit worker mobility and suppress wages and competition for labor.

i can only talk about the place i worked for 30+ years and no president was helping the PO it was all talk....

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Yeah - claiming 20% of U.S. employees have signed a non-compete??
No. Not even close. No way in hell it is half that many

 

[Foxfyre]

Has Trump ever stood up for employees?

He is deporting tens of thousands of illegals that frees up jobs for American employees and is reducing unnecessary regulation that free up employers to offer better jobs with more pay and benefits.

If any person doesn't want to sign a non compete clause, he/she is 100% free to go find a job somewhere else. Nobody forces anybody to work anywhere.

 

[rightwinger]

Yeah - claiming 20% of U.S. employees have signed a non-compete??
No. Not even close. No way in hell it is half that many

Current Coverage (Workers Currently Bound)

• About 18% of U.S. workers—or roughly 30 million people—are currently under a non‑compete agreement  .
• Broader estimates range between 27.8% and 46.5% of private‑sector workers, translating to 36 to 60 million employees affected  .
• A U.S. Treasury Department report underscores similar figures: 18% currently covered, and 37% have signed one at some point in their career  .

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Current Coverage (Workers Currently Bound)

• About 18% of U.S. workers—or roughly 30 million people—are currently under a non‑compete agreement  .
• Broader estimates range between 27.8% and 46.5% of private‑sector workers, translating to 36 to 60 million employees affected  .
• A U.S. Treasury Department report underscores similar figures: 18% currently covered, and 37% have signed one at some point in their career  .

Don't believe it, doesn't pass the smell test.
1 in 5 Americans are in a non compete?? - Not a chance.
There is something screwy with that data

And look at their data - between 36 to 60 million??? That is a helluva broad guess. That obviously is just a complete guess

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Whatever the data is, non compete's are essential for a number of businesses. In fact, many businesses could collapse and leave all of their employees in the dust without them - in particular small-medium businesses.
Any medium-large company that has a sales force - MUST- have non competes. It would be unthinkable without them.
Scenario - over 10 years a company owner has put $millions in equipment/leases etc. Has 5 sales staff members.
All 5 sales staff decides to move to a competitor or startup their own company. Previous owner goes bankrupt and all of the employees lose their jobs.

 

[Failzero]

45-47 is sending plane loads of South Korean Hyundai Workers who sauntered in illegally under Biden in a Job Rush ( kinda like a Land Rush in the West in the 1880s ) and powerful Swampers wanted them to stay because a few dozen ( out of 400 + ) had overstayed visas & fraudulent work permits

 

[iamwhatiseem]

45-47 is sending plane loads of South Korean Hyundai Workers who sauntered in illegally under Biden in a Job Rush ( kinda like a Land Rush in the West in the 1880s ) and powerful Swampers wanted them to stay because a few dozen ( out of 400 + ) had overstayed visas & fraudulent work permits

Not to mention South Korea doesn't want them back, now why is that?

 

[Failzero]

Not to mention South Korea doesn't want them back, now why is that?

Yet the planes taxied & took off