Lucky for those people, California exists! Noncompetes can’t be enforced here, and amazingly, this applies even if the employee entered into the agreement before they came to California:
> What makes Oregon think it can enforce its law across state lines ?
It’s absolutely possible to be a fugitive in one state from another. It’s also typically quite expensive and stressful.
If I were on the other side of this fight, I’d use the opponent’s absence from Oregon courts to get civil judgements in my favour and then use the federal credit system to collect.
https://www.littler.com/news-analysis/asap/california-reache...