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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.

Oct 7, 2026

6:04
How significant is this?
6:06
I think there's a couple of comments to make about the significance of the change.
6:10
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.
6:19
Secondly, the significance of it will more be seen at the low to mid-income earners.
6:25
Obviously, that's who the protections are intended to protect, given that the high income threshold applies.
6:30
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.
6:43
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.
11:31
What's the situation here? Yeah.

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