A recent survey has found that one in five workers have a non-compete clause in their contract, including for jobs such as yoga teachers and truck drivers.

That followed an address to the National Press Club by the chairwoman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Gina Cass-Gottlieb, who confirmed that it was looking into whether restrictive covenants in employment contracts were inhibiting the economy and therefore whether the long-standing exclusion of industrial and employment consideration from competition law should be revisited.