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Originally Posted by Apache
Not for individuals in the US. A contract saying an ex employee can not ply his trade anywhere in the US is illegal. You can not keep someone from making a living. You can enforce a non compete clause for a specific distance. For example within 50 miles of you current employer. You can not keep him from working in the same field in all 50 states and territories of the US. On the other hand, if it can be proven that the employee poached existing customers that could result in a lawsuit
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I believe that Little.Egret is referring to something entirely different - when the
owner of a company sells it, and signs a contract promising to not compete with the company they just sold for a certain amount of time. And those are enforceable, at least sometimes.
Employees and owners are not the same thing, though.