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[quote=Anonymous]Perfect timing with this question for me.

I'm making a career change from office drone to the beauty industry.

After beauty school I applied to be an employee at high volume salon #1 and was given a non-disclosure/non-compete to sign. The non-compete was really a no solicitation for 2 years agreement. They don't want you to steal their clients. No problem. The deal breaker for me was the money I'd have to pay if I didn't make it through at least one year at this minimum wage + low commission + tips job to reimbursement them for my training. It was literally 2+ months' salary if I left early and there are close to no benefits like flexibility like I was expecting at a salon job.

I moved on to high volume salon #2. I have been in unpaid training for two weeks. Now the owner has told me I need to sign a non-disclosure/non-compete to start getting paid as a 1099 contractor. I've read it and this one says no stealing clients, of course. It also says I can't start my own salon or have an ownership stake in a salon business within 10 miles of her salon.  I am a business already and if her business is slow I don't want to limit my ability to make money. I could be ok if she reduced the radius to 5 miles.

A few things about job #2: 
1. The owner is currently in a lawsuit with a former contractor who started her own business with the owner's blessing until she heard that contractor was soliciting her clients. 
2. The owner let another contractor leave with her blessing to start her own business because that girl had a lot of complaints about poor service and she was trying to figure out how to get rid of her anyway.

One of my friends is warning me that the owner of salon #2 sounds unstable, but the commissions are great and she is very flexible with work hours which is why I'm willing to put up with some of this craziness.

Anyway, I've read that 1099 contractors cannot be held to non-competes like employees. Does that apply in Virginia?

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