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Internships offer experience, skills and can open doors

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Internships offer experience, skills and can open doors

Forget summer travel or lifeguarding. College student Sky Crabtree is ready to sharpen his journalism skills this summer with an internship at NBC 4 New York at 30 Rock. The 19-year-old rising junior at Stony Brook University on Long Island will be working with the consumer reporting team for “Better Get Baquero,” monitoring tip lines, … Read more

Can my company insist on a noncompete and prevent me from working?

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Can my company insist on a noncompete and prevent me from working?

My employer fired me and then said that I had signed a noncompete agreement preventing me from going to a competitor for a year. What I do is very specialized, and they don’t even define who a competitor is. Can they prevent me from earning a living? For the uninitiated: Noncompete agreements are either stand … Read more