Florida employee lawyer Donna Ballman has an excellent post on the hazards and perils for noncompete agreements on her wonderfully-named blog, Screw You Guys I'm Going Home: Beware the Trojan Horse of "Rewards"With Noncompetes. These are issues to consider when you may be presented with a noncompete agreement either prior to starting employment or while employed.
The use of noncompete agreements has proliferated in recent years as discussed in a number of prior posts: Noncompete Agreements: Are They Proliferating for No Good Reason?; Noncompete Agreements & Low-wage Workers; and Noncompete Agreements & Dog Walkers.