CALIFORNIA NDA / NON DISCLOSURE agreement signed under duress in 2015.. Legal? Enforceable?

Mel, I signed an NDA/ non competition clause under duress last year in Aug 2015. The company i accepted an offer letter for the job w/o any mention of said NDA and then they sprung it on me the first day. I argued they were not legal in CA, but i was told if i did not sign i did not have a job so i signed reluctantly. No copy of the agreement was ever given to me to show and attorney or even for my record keeping. Now nearly 11 months later the company terminated my employment mysteriously after a Dr approved sick day and subsequent interview with competitor the week prior to my illness. I have an email from the new employer stating they were aware of my NDA based on a back door illegal meeting between my firing mgr and themselves who are OLD FRIENDS. So now i have reason to believe i was fired for interviewing with the competition who knew each other and did not uphold my legal rights asking them not to call my ex employer for a reference, additionally i only gave them the application on the 2nd interview so i have cause to believe the backdoor meeting took place before I had even accepted the new position with the competitor. So the competitor may have actually inadvertently got me fired based on speaking to my active employer 1 week prior to me being fired with no cause on the termination slip, no administrative warnings in my file, and a very loose policy on medical leave to prevent illness spreading in my ex-eployers office. All signs, and email disclosure by current employer who was the competitor i interviewed with at the times admission that they knew about my NDA because they were told I had signed one by the firing manager, at a meeting that i did not authorized of personal nature where they were talking about me prior to being hired at new employer (competitor) and talking about NDA's as a social call??? This situation stinks so much i have involved the labor board. The NDA i have now been asked by competitor who is now my employer who knew before hiring me of the existence of NDA to have me get an attorney to read and write a letter stating i am allowed to work for said competitor based on NDA i signed with ex-company. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated and this is the tip of the iceberg. Turns out i have a bad liver and my absence was very valid and I was denied FMLA and terminated the same day i retuned from medical days absence.
Pissed off Anonymous guy :(

0 answers  |  asked Jul 11, 2016 8:36 PM [EST]  |  applies to California

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