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Noncompete, Overtime Rules Change, But Legal Challenges Remain

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April 23, 2024, was a big day for the Biden Administration, as the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) and Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) almost simultaneously launched new revamped rules which will affect millions of...more

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#WorkforceWednesday: FTC Proposes Ban on Non-Competes - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast

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This week, we bring you our special Spilling Secrets podcast series on the future of non-compete and trade secrets law: On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a proposed rule that would ban...more

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Non-competition Agreements under Scrutiny at State and Federal Level

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Employee restrictive covenants, in particular non-competition agreements, are under scrutiny at the state and federal level. State legislatures are working to narrow the circumstances under which restrictive covenants may be...more

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Navigating the FTC’s Proposed Rule Banning Non-Competes

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Williams Mullen attorneys Jim Burns (Antitrust & Trade Regulation) and Laura Windsor (Labor, Employment & Immigration) discuss the recent seismic movements at the FTC regarding a proposed rule banning non-competes in...more

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Future of Non-Competes Up in the Air

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Future of Non-Competes Up in the Air - The FTC recently announced its proposal to ban non-compete clauses in employment agreements. That proposal is currently in a 60-day period of public comment, and employers are...more

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

FTC Seeks to Ban Non-Compete Agreements: What You Need to Know

On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed its long-awaited new rule banning non-compete agreements. This was an anticipated event after a July 9, 2021, executive order from President Biden that directed...more

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FTC Proposes a Rule to Ban Non-Competition Clauses in Employment Agreements

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On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to prohibit the use and enforcement of non-competition (a.k.a. “non-compete”) clauses in employment agreements. The...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

FTC’s New Proposed Rule Could Ban Non-Compete Agreements

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a rule last week that would ban employers from requiring workers to sign non-compete provisions in employment contracts. The rule also would prevent employers from entering into new...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

.POOF! There goes 500 years of jurisprudence. . .

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One of the earliest reported cases challenging a non-compete clause was Mitchell v. Reynolds, 1 P. Wms. 181, 24 Eng. Rep. 347 (Q.B. 1711). The clause survived the challenge, and a vigorous jurisprudence delineating the...more

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP

FTC Proposes Ban on Non-Compete Agreements

What You Need to Know- •The FTC has proposed a new rule which, if adopted in its current form, would prohibit nearly all private employers from entering into or enforcing non-compete agreements with their employees. •The...more

Tonkon Torp LLP

Noncompetes Under Fire from the Federal Trade Commission

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UPDATE: The public comment period on the FTC’s notice of proposed rulemaking regarding the Non-Compete Clause Rule closed on April 19, 2023. The FTC has made no recent announcement about the status of the proposed rule.   ...more

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FTC Announces Proposed Ban on Noncompete Agreements

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its proposal of a new rule on January 5, 2023, that would ban employers from imposing noncompete clauses on their workers and invalidate all existing noncompetes currently in...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

FTC Proposes Broad Ban on Worker Noncompete Clauses

On January 5, 2023, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking under the FTC Act with far-reaching implications for U.S. employers. If enacted and enforced, the proposed rule would prohibit...more

Paul Hastings LLP

FTC Condemns Noncompetes: An Antitrust Perspective on Practical Next Steps for Companies

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The FTC recently concluded that many noncompete agreements between employers and employees violate federal antitrust law. These actions represent a rejection of the centuries-old principle that noncompete provisions are...more

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The Federal Trade Commission Proposes Ban on Employer-Worker Non-Compete Agreements

On Jan. 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Proposed Rule) seeking to categorically ban nearly all employer non-competition agreements nationwide. If passed in its draft form,...more

Cozen O'Connor

FTC Proposes Rule to Ban or Limit Non-Compete Agreements

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In July of 2021, as part of “a whole-of-government effort to promote competition in the American economy,” President Biden issued an Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy, encouraging the Federal...more

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FTC Proposes A New Regulation That Kicks Non-Competes to the Curb

On January 5, 2023, the FTC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“proposed Rule”) that would ban most non-competition agreements in the United States and put to the wastebin the 50-state patchwork of laws that currently...more

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FTC Contemplates Banning Non-Compete Covenants in Franchise Agreements

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On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a proposed rule that, with limited exceptions, would both ban post-termination non-compete covenants in employment agreements and require rescission of existing...more

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FTC Proposes Sweeping Federal Ban on Employee Noncompetes

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On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a proposed regulation that, if adopted, would essentially abolish employee noncompetes across the United States. A proposed FTC regulation on employee...more

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FTC Proposes Ground-Breaking Rule Banning Non-Compete Clauses in Employment Contracts Nationwide

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On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) proposed a sweeping rule that would ban the use of non-compete provisions in employment contracts and require employers to nullify any existing non-compete clauses...more

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Employers Beware: FTC Proposes Rule Prohibiting Employee Noncompete Agreements

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In response to a 2021 Executive Order from President Biden, on January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued notice of a proposed rule that will prohibit most forms of noncompete agreements between employers and...more

Paul Hastings LLP

FTC Proposes Ban on Non-Competes: What Employers Need to Know

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On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced a proposed regulation that would ban non-compete agreements between workers and employers, with some limited exceptions (the “Proposed Rule”). The Proposed...more

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FTC Seeks to Ban Noncompete Agreements in Employment Contracts

On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced a broad proposed rule that would ban employers from imposing noncompete clauses on their workers. The FTC press release announcing the proposed rule states...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

No More Non-Competes? FTC Proposes Rule Banning Nearly All Non-Compete Agreements with Workers

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On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced plans to prohibit employers from imposing or enforcing non-compete clauses in agreements with workers, including employees and independent contractors, in...more

Holland & Knight LLP

To Compete or Non-Compete: Rulemaking Proposal Aims to Ban Non-Competes Nationally

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A majority of states currently recognize the enforceability of non-compete agreements to some extent. Generally, these agreements prohibit employees from working in the same or similar profession for a period of time...more

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