So my job just issued everyone brand new employee handbooks for everyone to look over and sign, and one of the new additions is a confidentiality clause. That alone doesn't really bug me, since they're becoming more common, but along with it is a clause that upon termination for any reason, we cannot work for a company considered to be a competitor for a period of 36 months. Furthermore, we must furnish my current company with my any new employer's contact information so they may get in touch with them to ensure I'm not breaking my confidentiality clause.
Apart from the obvious problems they'd have enforcing their own clauses, is there any legal basis for them requiring us to let them know our new employers? Say they fire me; they then get to say who I can and cannot work for? Tell me that wouldn't actually hold up in any legal proceedings.
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