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Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "'You Were Paid, Right?': Kennedy Has Extremely Tense Questioning Of Doctor About Noncompete Clause" video.
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Interesting. Here in Australia, some companies have tried writing such 2 year exclusion clauses into employment contracts. Hardly anyone takes much notice. It could be held as restraint of trade if it went to court. What sometimes happens is that a person who leaves a company with a 2 year clause not to compete, finds a job with another company with a different job title, but doing much the same thing. In highly specialised fields like medicine and engineering, it could cost the first company a lot of expense on legal fees to prove in court it is the same job. So they don't sue, because not only will it cost them, the suit may fail, and the competitor would most likely find another person just as good anyway.
Kennedy is right. The doctor was fool enough to sign a contact he didn't like, just so he didn't have to move house and got a bag of money instead. Not really any different to signing a contract to buying an EV car, finding the need to find places to charge it at a damn nuisance, and wanting your money back.
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