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Ubisoft shuttering freshly-unionised Halifax studio, 71 jobs affected
(www.gamesindustry.biz)
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No. The idea is to stop people from acccepting a better deal to go work for a competitor. Non-competes applying when being fired or when your company gets shuttered, would leave the employees literally unable to work in their field no matter how their employment ended.
Even if that were how these contracts worked, good luck to ubisoft enforcing a non-compete for employees that worked for a legal entity that no longer exists.
Non-competes often have a time period after employment, like one year or such.
Always depends on the lawyers they can afford