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California Tech Giants Settle DOJ Anti-Poaching Case

As followers of the recent debate about noncompetes in Massachusetts are well aware, a significant impetus in the push for a change in Massachusetts law has been the contrast provided by California, where employee non-competition agreements generally are unenforceable.   As reported here when the MA debate started in earnest, proponents of efforts to prohibit noncompetes have argued that Silicon Valley has fared better than the Massachusetts tech sector in recent years at least in part because, in the absence of noncompete enforcement,… More