In April of 2024, Bowditch alerted clients that the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) finalized “The Non-Compete Clause Rule” (the “Rule”), which would ban most employers from using post-employment non-compete agreements in...more
While there was much speculation that a bill regulating non-competition agreements would not pass by the end of this legislative session, Governor Baker, in the final hours of the session, signed into law a bill restricting...more
On October 31, 2017, the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development held a hearing on six separate bills to regulate non-competition agreements within the Commonwealth. While the bills differ somewhat in substance,...more