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On June 26, 2024, Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee vetoed a bill that would have banned nearly all noncompetes and customer non-solicits in the State of Rhode Island....more
Against the backdrop of the FTC’s rule banning non-compete agreements nationwide and the lawsuits challenging that rule, many states have considered legislation narrowing or outright banning non-competes. Minnesota recently...more
Maine Governor Janet Mills has vetoed legislation that would have severely restricted the contexts in which Maine employers could use and enforce non-compete agreements. The bill, LD 1496, would have significantly hampered...more
On March 29, 2024, Maine Governor Janet T. Mills vetoed a bill that would have banned all employee noncompete agreements in the State of Maine. Both chambers of the Maine legislature passed L.D. 1496, An Act to Prohibit...more
New York Governor Cathy Hochul recently vetoed a bill that would have enacted a sweeping ban on non-competition covenants amidst increasing opposition from business groups cautioning that the legislation would accelerate the...more
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul in December vetoed a bill passed by the New York Legislature that would have prohibited nearly all noncompete agreements in the state regardless of the context, salary level or job function of the...more
Although non-competition agreements are under ongoing attack at the federal and state levels (including being banned in California, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Oklahoma, among others), New York State is not yet ready to join...more
On December 22, 2023, New York Governor Kathy Hochul vetoed proposed legislation that would have banned all employee non-compete agreements in New York. In our June 2023 Legal Update, we outlined the proposed legislation that...more
As businesses awaited word near the end of the year, New York Governor Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill on December 22, 2023, that would have categorically banned employee non-compete agreements in New York. Ban on Non-Compete...more
On December 22, 2023, New York Governor Kathy Hochul declined to sign legislation (S3100) that would have outlawed noncompete clauses in virtually all employment contracts. If it had gone into effect, New York would have been...more
The long-awaited death of noncompetes in New York is—forgive the pun—dead in the water, at least for now. On December 22, 2023, Governor Hochul vetoed pending legislation that would have effectively banned noncompetition...more
New York remains one of the busiest states from a business perspective, with ever-changing employment laws that affect businesses. This is the first part of a four-part series providing recent New York employment law updates....more
Q. Did New York institute a ban against noncompete agreements? ...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Efforts to prohibit non-compete agreements in New York State are back to square one following Governor Hochul’s veto of an outright ban in late December 2023....more
On December 22, 2023, Governor Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill which, if signed into law, would have imposed a ban on non-compete agreements throughout the state, without exception. The bill, which we previously covered here,...more