Eli5: how exactly can companies enforce non-compete contracts? How is it their business what company you go to, and how would they even know?

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Eli5: how exactly can companies enforce non-compete contracts? How is it their business what company you go to, and how would they even know?

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In California, they generally cannot. Here all non-compete agreements are unenforceable except against a person that sells a business (and agrees not to compete with the purchaser).