#win for workers

[elfwreck]

...existing noncompetes for the vast majority of workers will no longer be enforceable after the rule’s effective date. Existing noncompetes for senior executives - who represent less than 0.75% of workers - can remain in force under the FTC’s final rule, but employers are banned from entering into or attempting to enforce any new noncompetes...

No more, "if you stop working for us, you can't work for any of our competitors for X years."

No more having to decide between staying at a terrible job or switching to an entirely different industry.

The Commission also finds that instead of using noncompetes to lock in workers, employers that wish to retain employees can compete on the merits for the worker’s labor services by improving wages and working conditions

This ruling is from Apr 23, 2024, and is supposed to go into effect on September 4, 2024.

Odds are, enforcement of noncompete contracts between now and September is going to be difficult. It won't be impossible--companies can still theoretically try to go after workers who quit and take up a new job in violation of a noncompete, and presumably can continue with penalties/lawsuits related to that over several years while trying to prove things--but it'll be harder, and they'll have to decide if it's worth the money to chase down one person when they know it can't have a chilling effect on future employees.

In the past, a rep for enforcing noncompetes made it useful to prosecute; once that rep isn't useful, it only serves to drive away potential new employees. The financial benefit to companies was never based on "penalize the people who broke the noncompete" but "force everyone else to stay at a shitty job so they don't risk going bankrupt fighting the noncompete contract." Enforcement was devastating to workers but not an actual gain for the company.

[crassadomo]

[pucksandpower]

Currently Forza Ferrari-ing harder than anyone (other than Charles Leclerc) has ever Forza Ferrari’d before ❤️

[s4ndg3m]

hear me out on scag x split guys. they both start with "s" it's practically canon.

[amethystsoda]

animation workers ignited are fighting for the future of cartoons 💪 official acc posted this as a love letter to animation and everything they’re fighting for 💕

[booasaur]

What using the tiniest bit of US leverage can do.

[buddiesmutslut]

Okay, so the trashed hotel room is going to be super expensive, BUT -

I haven’t seen anyone talk about the karaoke bar! Bro, there were bottles of liquor out, someone was pouring clear liquor from a bottle into shot glasses for everyone. Buying straight up liquor bottles from a bat is NOT cheap, & Buck is the one that rented the room & everything for the bachelor party.

So, once they get the tab from the karaoke bar, the fees for the hotel room (from Chimney bc there’s no way that man is paying for those damages on a hotel room he didn’t even stay in) PLUS the bill for wherever tf they got the bottle of whiskey from in the hotel room (bc nobody had that when they arrived at the room), bruh they’re going to have to move in together to have enough money to pay all that off 😂

[whosname]

Here I am again.

[giiyus]

we got small frubbo crumbs but i am eating that shit up bc it's been days (years even in my heart) since we had them together and i miss their silly little letter writing and their cutesy flower exchanges that say 'i love you' bc they're too scared to write it so much

[feketeribizli]

ikea job application asking about my gender here in my good christian country hungary...

[feath-r-hopper]

he's heard a lot about you, mr jenson

[datamodel-of-disaster]

Ok, so… Belgium legalised sex work in 2022, meaning sex workers could register themselves as independent contractors and have a fully legal framework for their income, which was already a huge win, but still left the profession in a grey-ish area.

Today, a law was proposed that would give sex workers the right to sign an employment contract, meaning a sex worker in a brothel would be fully recognised as an employee by the government, with all the relevant rights associated with that (social security, pension rights, leave days, unionisation, etc) as well as legal protection under Belgian labour law in case of disputes with their employer. The law also includes special clauses for the profession, such as refusing a customer not being grounds for termination, and new standards for safety and cleanliness of registered sex work establishments.

I’m proud to be Belgian today; crossing my fingers this makes it through.

SEX WORK IS REAL WORK!

[uncanny-tranny]

I think it's a mistake to assume that computer generation (so-called AI) is the only manifestation of the exploitation that workers (especially in artistic fields that are already considered lesser) experience. The problems that they experience are, I think, exasperated by computer generation, but it isn't like there were no problems with compensation, theft, or other forms of exploitation.

The problem is the exploitation, and I think sometimes, people lose sight of that in these conversations.

[towerartt]

Jack would make for a fine (false) prophet, with his flair for the dramatic, drug habit and blind faith in gods that have no intent of saving him.

[soliusss]

so my job got this fancy new ai scheduler and it’s cut my hours and coworkers hours and fucked both me and many of my coworkers in various ways sooo will I be going back to college in the fall? Up in the air! If they don’t fix the schedules and only want me around 12 hours instead of 39 like last year and up until now I’m quitting my fucking job and finding another one for the winter because I won’t be able to afford school anyway ❤️ I’m losing my FUCKING mind.

[teeth-draws]

“What do you mean he’s scary!! Look at him!”

— taking artistic liberties to scrunkle the face of @shepherds-of-haven’s Blade Bronwyn - a man with 0.6% body fat lol