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Daniel Wise <dewise -at- IX -dot- NETCOM -dot- COM> wrote:
>As a second issue, how can an agency insist on a no-compete >agreement if they have no work for you? Do they usually put >you "on the bench" and pay you some sort of salary in those >gaps between jobs? If they don't, and don't have work, how >can they prohibit you from working for another agency?
In my experience, the non-competition clauses are more
limited than that. The ones I've signed have restricted
me from working for the client for several months after
my contract was finished.
The intent, a consulting company told me, was to prevent
writers from cutting out them out and cutting their own
deals directly with the client.I suppose I must be naive
and very unruthless, because that had never occurred to me,
but I was assured that some writers had tried that.
At any rate, I have yet to deal with a consulting company
that was prepared to waive the clause if I was offer full-
time work, so long as I was forthright about what was
happening.
I choked on this kind of clause the first time I encountered
it. However, in practice, it hasn't been nearly as bad as it sounds.
--
Bruce Byfield (bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com)
Technical Writer / Job Bank Team, STC Canada West Coast Chapter
h: (604) 421-7189
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