> In California, you are free to make contributions on your own time with your own computer, and those rights can't be contracted away. You are not a slave.
If you do that and your contract gets terminated for "unrelated" reasons, what can you do in California to fight this?
TBH people are missing the point here. Employment is a "trust" thing. If your future employer tells you they don't want you doing that in your free time, you are free to pursue other opportunities.
But if you accept, and then they find out you did not keep your word, you won't keep your job for long even if you say "but the law allows this", because the employer can just say "but we don't trust you anymore", and that's it.
If you don't want to accept these terms, don't accept them. But accepting them to break them is not great.
If you do that and your contract gets terminated for "unrelated" reasons, what can you do in California to fight this?
TBH people are missing the point here. Employment is a "trust" thing. If your future employer tells you they don't want you doing that in your free time, you are free to pursue other opportunities.
But if you accept, and then they find out you did not keep your word, you won't keep your job for long even if you say "but the law allows this", because the employer can just say "but we don't trust you anymore", and that's it.
If you don't want to accept these terms, don't accept them. But accepting them to break them is not great.