Katija Stjepovic, reporter/anchor for KSL 5 News in Salt Lake City, took maternity leave in January. Either she sat out longer than allowed or decided a career change was in order, Katija will return to SLC tv, but across the street at FOX 13 KSTU – “THIS JUST IN: Over the moon to announce that I am officially part of the Good Day Utah team at @fox13! I’ll be covering all things traffic and filling in on the desk with the dream team starting Next Monday. Fox 13 has always held a special place in my heart! See you on TV”
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Only North Dakota and Oklahoma prohibit enforcement of the non-compete contracts. The only restriction in Utah courts require that non-compete restrictions be “reasonably limited in time and geographic area” in order to be valid and enforceable.
Yes, and if memory serves, UTAH was among the first to drop the clauses and it initially caused a flurry of departures with talent going across the street.
That’s a bit misleading. Ignoring laws which generally prohibit non-competes based on annual pay, which many states including Washington have, several states have laws which prohibit enforcing non-competes against broadcast journalists if they are terminated without cause. Washington has such a law (RCW 49.44.190). Utah appears to have a similar law as well (Utah Code 34-51-201). Utah law has some other requirements about being OT exempt and pay threshold, but the important portion is -201(2)(a)(iii) which only allows enforcement if the employee was terminated for cause or for breaching their individual employment agreement.
This is the result of the elimination of the non-compete in that state.