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.
“[S]tates that choose to enforce noncompetes see declines in mobility, entrepreneurship and wages.”
Source: Resistance to Noncompete Agreements Is a Win for Workers – WSJ
