Today is an important day for labor market mobility, as well as a very exciting day for me and others who research non-compete policy. Over the summer I was invited to the White House to present my research (for example here and here and here) and the arguments against non-competes I developed in my book Talent Wants to be Free. Since then, we’ve formed a White House working group and today the White House issued a call for action to push back against the over-expansion of non-competes and other practices, such as collusive agreements to not poach employees and anti-competitive wage fixing. As Vice President Biden writes “no one should have to sit on the sidelines” because of an unnecessary non-compete clause. In the next few days, I will post some more about the various aspects of the call for action that was announced today but for now let me just say – how great that my call to set talent free has now been given an official hashtag by the President’s team!
Hashtag: #LetUsCompete @WhiteHouse @POTUS @VP
Posted by Orly Lobel on October 25, 2016 at 04:15 PM
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Well done, Orly.
Posted by: Adam Zimmerman | Oct 25, 2016 10:43:46 PM