A closer look
Protecting corporate trade secrets makes sense for a software engineer, but it is utter madness for a sandwich artist. Corporations routinely abuse 'non-compete clauses' by slipping them into the contracts of low-wage workers like janitors and fast-food cashiers. This draconian legal maneuver is designed entirely to prevent minimum wage employees from walking across the street to a competitor for a 50-cent raise, artificially trapping them in cheap labor.






