Even with unemployment at 70-year highs during the Covid-19 pandemic, employers continue going to court to enforce noncompete agreements and prevent former employees from taking new jobs.
In Pennsylvania, a sports retailer laid off a salesman who had worked there for 31 years and then tried to keep him and other sales staff from taking new positions. A medical provider sued to keep a Houston doctor from opening new offices. Businesses in ongoing legal fights seek to protect their information even though their former employees didn’t have new jobs lined up.
But courts are now starting to balk. Some judges ...