Amazon does an about-face on controversial warehouse worker non-compete contracts

Amazon is rolling back a controversial non-compete clause in its contracts for warehouse workers (including temporary ones) that could have kept them from working at competing companies for a year and a half. The controversial contract details were first reported by The Verge yesterday, and quickly drew public ire given their broad scope. Amazon sells just about everything, and the clause in question prohibited workers from going to a company that "directly or indirectly" competed with Amazon after their tenure. It was also a standard operating procedure for workers to reaffirm their contracts, which included the non-compete clause, after being laid off, in exchange for severance.

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