(Associated Press) Many of Amazon’s Seattle-area employees would be exempt from new labor protections in a bill passed by the state Senate after lobbyists for the tech giant pushed to change a key threshold in the rules.
The protections would partially prohibit non-compete clauses — controversial agreements used by tech companies and others to block employees from going to work for competitors or launching rival startups.
Lawmakers say Amazon lobbied to have the income threshold set at a level that would likely exempt many workers in Seattle.
