Case: Individual Employment Rights/Noncompete Agreements (W.D. Wash.)

A Washington federal district court denied Lowe’s Home Centers, LLC’s motion to dismiss claims brought under the Washington Non-Competition Act by a former employee who earned less than twice the minimum wage, finding that the company’s code of conduct prohibiting employees from competing with Lowe’s could violate the statute’s protection of low-wage workers’ right to supplemental employment, while granting dismissal of plaintiff’s requests for declaratory and injunctive relief.

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