sounds crazy. in my country, adding anything that prevents you from finding work in the future to a contract is kind of invalid.

you do get non competes etc., but it never holds up in court as you can easily prove it prevents you from finding jobs.

i wish for you in your legislation there might be a similar law, otherwise these things are really evil. i mean, its like prison in some fields niche enough, and those are exactly the fields prone to such overly protective clauses

> adding anything that prevents you from finding work in the future to a contract is kind of invalid.

Here it's six months top, and it only applies to management and specialists with critical domain knowledge - and this also has to be reflected in their wage.