No compete clauses are designed to keep sub contract companies from approaching the customer of the company they are working for and trying to get there job or cause problems on the job. They are legal and make good business since. Many of tem are only applicable the location and project the current work is being preformed by that sub contractor.
Bottom line contractors jumping form company to company without permission on a job or going after the primes work without permission form the prime never turns out to be a good thing for any one.
Honesty and integrity has been lost in this industry between contractors and these things are needed for every ones protection.
If you want to be the prime contractor on the job and are qualified to be the prime then bid on the job. If you are a sub contractor research the companies on the job and see who is the best company to work for. Just because someone is paying a penny more doses not mean they are the best to work for or that you will see any of your money at all.
I know of a contract company offering 50cents on the dollar to companies they have screwed over in the past on money that they owe them to come to work for them again today. Any one would be crazy to do that they have screwed you in the past, they have a reputation of screwing allot of people and you think they will be honest and pay you this time when they are only willing to pay you 1/2 of what they owe you know???????
There are many things to consider when you take a job. Price, terms, scope of work, and quality of the company you are looking at working for act. If you go to work for a good company and do good work there should be no need to jump ship.
