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Emily Baxter
Partner at Kingston Reid, an Australian workplace law firm, specialising in employment and industrial relations litigation including restraint-of-trade matters.
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Oct 7, 2026
The Legal Brief: The biggest restraint of trade shake-up in decades
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6:06Emily BaxterGUEST
I think there's a couple of comments to make about the significance of the change.
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6:10Emily BaxterGUEST
Firstly, it's significant simply from the fact that we haven't had this kind of restriction on non-compete clauses in this country in the past.
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6:19Emily BaxterGUEST
Secondly, the significance of it will more be seen at the low to mid-income earners.
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6:25Emily BaxterGUEST
Obviously, that's who the protections are intended to protect, given that the high income threshold applies.
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6:30Emily BaxterGUEST
we've seen the rhetoric from the government in the lead up to the proposed change around hairdressers, for example, being subject to non-compete so they can't go and work at another hair salon after they leave their employment.
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6:43Emily BaxterGUEST
Obviously, you know, that garnered a lot of kind of public support for those kind of changes because what is the business interest you're trying to protect in preventing somebody from earning a income in their field of expertise.