A U.S. labor board official on Tuesday said requiring workers to sign agreements not to join competing companies is usually illegal, the latest bid by government regulators to rein in the practice.
to agency lawyers said so-called "noncompete agreements" discourage workers from exercising their rights under U.S. labor law to advocate for better working conditions.
Specifically, the pacts could prevent workers from resigning or threatening to do so to demand higher wages or other improvements at the workplace, Abruzzo wrote. The NLRB general counsel acts as a prosecutor and brings unfair labor practice cases to the separate five-member board, which currently has a Democratic majority.in January that would ban companies from requiring workers to sign noncompete provisions. The proposal is pending.found that about 18% of U.S. workers, were subject to noncompete agreements. That included more than 13% of workers earning less than $40,000 per year, the study found.
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