FTC ban on noncompete agreements comes under legal attack
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When an employee quits they should have to exhaustively enumerate such trade secrets and evidence the quitting employee in fact knows about them.
"They have trade secrets" -- prove it.
Or maybe it should be like
Employer: "We don't want them to work for anyone else" FTC: "Sure, but then you have to pay them for the opportunity cost of lost work"