Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT: 2882-2886 (26-30 January 2015)
Oilman:
The UK term is "gardening leave" whereby key employees are specifically constrained from working for anyone else and are paid in lieu for a period of time, which they notionally spend gardening. British and European law generalky contains some version of "notice" and time-related severance pay, but there is no legal reason you can't collect your notice and severance (redundancy) and go straight into another job UNLESS the employer keeps employees under notice on the clock - there is often no severance element if you resign, and notice periods can be waived by mutual consent, especially if a business is winding down anyway.
Zebediah:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 29 Jan 2015, 18:27 ---IIRC, non-compete agreements and many NDAs can't be legally enforced in my state. They're just there to scare people into complying, and most do. I'd love to see them rise from the level of "not-enforcible" to flat-out fucking illegal with massive damages awarded as punishment to the spunk-stains who try it.
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A fast-food company would have a hard time enforcing a non-compete agreement anyway. They would have to take each and every ex-employee to court individually. The legal fees would add up fast to the point where they would be pissing away all their profits on lawyers.
Now, my wife used to be subject to a rather intimidating non-disclosure agreement because her former employer had a business relationship with a large technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California. But this was the sort of situation where an NDA makes sense and is to be expected. She had access to the specifications for some of their products while they were still in development, and this carefully unnamed company is notorious for jealously guarding its trade secrets. If she had ever violated her NDA then that company could have and would have gone after her with the scariest and most expensive lawyers they could muster.
Oilman:
The main enforcement of NDA provisions comes by way of non-employment. I sign various agreements from time to time but the main incentive/sanction is that if an individual gets a reputation for disclosing sensitive information, the work dries up
Smeagol:
--- Quote from: Delirious Lab on 29 Jan 2015, 06:07 ---...
Personally, I'd like to see the Pintsize equivalent of Faye's intermittent blackout sequence from earlier this week:
Black screen... Panicked Winslow... Black screen... examined by Marigold... black screen... trying to grab Momo's behind... black screen... being punched by May... black screen... hand plugged to some kind of device... black screen...
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I'm not even an artist, but if this doesn't happen, I feel tempted to draw it/compose it myself.
Anyway, I don't think Dora will re-hire her. Dora has her own issues, and she made the decision to cut Sven out of her life, for her own health. I suspect Faye has a sort of toxic effect of some sort on her, without realizing, but Dora couldn't exactly cut Faye the same way. Now she's had it, and although she'll probably contact Faye and explain this, I doubt she'll rehire her. Her therapist may even have suggested the breaks.
Is it cold in here?:
Welcome, new person! There is a fan art thread where that would be a great contribution.
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