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The Human Factor In Noncompete Disputes: Howie Carr Is Still Upset Over 5 Years

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D. R. Tucker

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http://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/x/215864/Antitrust+Competition/The+Human+Factor+In+Noncompete+Disputes+Howie+Carr+Is+Still+Upset+Over+5+Years+After+His+Lawsuit+With+WRKO

Short piece from the Foley & Hoag firm on Carr's reaction to the demise of WRKO.

Carr's attitude towards WRKO highlights the human factor in noncompete disputes. Employers should be careful what they wish for when they make employees sign noncompetes. If an employee is unhappy with his job, but feels stuck in that job because of a noncompete he signed with his employer, then what the employer gets is an unhappy, often less productive, employee. Employers should balance their interests in protecting their businesses with those of having a content and productive workforce when deciding whether to have employees sign noncompetes and how onerous those noncompetes should be.
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thanks for that--haven't quite read the other articles linked to it but yes Howie and/or his lawyer made a mistake in '07 by letting the word get out he was jumping. There was the right of
first refusal etc; Entercom must not mind all the jabs Howie gives them on air if he does
half decent in making them money (one time he DID get suspended for on air criticism). An unhappy employee yes but where does he go now ("one way or the other I'll be on FM in a few years") with
WTKK gone? Not sure if his jumping to 96.9 would have saved them but it could have helped them
in some ways.

There are other options now for talk; younger gen. may not be into it, etc. Does he do The Howie
Carr Webstream/Podcast if he prefers not to stay with RKO after late 2014? (I do note btw that the TuneIn on my smartphone does offer such things as podcasts of Kuhner, Carr, and many other hosts--as does the RKO app of course...and Howie does have some listeners from afar via
comp.streaming /smart phones etc.)
 
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