https://www.vice.com/en/article/88qjjz/ftc-proposes-ban-on-worker-non-compete-clauses
From the article- didn't see it posted here and immediately thought of this sub when I saw it.
” The Federal Trade Commission proposed a rule banning non-compete clauses, contracts which prevent workers from joining competing companies after they leave their job, on Thursday morning. The agency stated that non-compete clauses harm healthy competition in the labor and product markets and block entrepreneurship, and estimated that the rule could increase workers’ earnings by almost $300 billion per year. “