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Eighth Circuit Invalidates Missouri's Two-Year Lobbying Ban for Former Legislators and Staffers - The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals invalidated a Missouri state constitutional amendment that imposed a two-year lobbying...more
Restrictive covenants have traversed a tumultuous road since the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on January 5, 2023, purporting to ban noncompetition agreements throughout the...more
On June 27, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in concurrence with the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ), announced a proposal to drastically overhaul the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) premerger...more
On Jan.5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a proposed rule that would effectively ban the use of non-compete agreements in employment contracts and preempt all state laws that provide less protection to...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has recently turned its focus to employee noncompete clauses, with the agency announcing a proposed regulation on January 5, 2023 that would implement a near-comprehensive ban across the...more
The FTC’s proposed rule banning non-competes nationally has received much attention, but the far likelier change to non-compete law for Minnesotans is from the all-DFL state government. Barely into session, the Minnesota...more
On January 11, 2023, Elizabeth Wilkins, the FTC’s Director of the Office of Policy Planning, spoke to the Capitol Forum about the FTC’s proposed rule to ban non-compete agreements. This conversation was the most significant...more
On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its long-anticipated proposed rule, which if adopted, would essentially ban all noncompete agreements between employers and their workers that restrict such...more
On January 19, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published its proposed rule barring most non-compete agreements that would apply to employees. We previously summarized the proposed rule here....more
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
As proposed, the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed rule to prohibit employers from using non-compete clauses in employment agreements would have sweeping impact on health care practices and hospitals employing restrictive...more
Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launched unprecedented challenges to noncompete provisions in employment contracts through both rulemaking and individual enforcement actions. Proposed Rule to Ban...more
Earlier this month, we reported on the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) proposed regulation that, if adopted, would essentially abolish employee non-competes across the United States. While we await (and will promptly report...more
For the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) proposed rule to ban non-compete clauses to become law, many hurdles would have to be overcome. Those who follow politics in this country have aptly observed that this is unlikely due...more
On January 5, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that seeks to severely limit the scope of employee non-competes. This would bring federal law into alignment with the laws of...more
Employers, make no mistake, the federal government and state governments are targeting employee non-competition agreements, also called non-competes. Broadly, legislatures and government agencies are concerned employers are...more
On January 5, 2023, in a dramatic and far-reaching agency action, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a notice of proposed rulemaking, effectively banning all non-compete agreements, nationwide. The FTC’s proposed...more
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
On Thursday, January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) proposed a sweeping rule that, if passed, would deem non-compete clauses an “unfair method of competition” prohibiting all employers from entering into these...more
The Federal Trade Commission has proposed a broad rule essentially banning noncompete agreements. Host Rich Schoenstein is joined by employment lawyer and restrictive covenant guru David Kleinmann to break down the proposal. ...more
Restrictive covenants, and more specifically, noncompete agreements, have been under increased scrutiny over the past several years. To date, restrictive covenants, including noncompetes, have been regulated at the state...more
The Federal Trade Commission continues to focus on labor-market competition issues with a set of settlements based on its newly asserted FTC Act Section 5 “stand alone” authority, and a highly controversial proposed...more
On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to prohibit employers from entering into non-compete clauses with workers and require employers to rescind existing non-compete...more
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published the Non-Compete Clause Rulemaking, a proposed rule that would prohibit the use of non-compete agreements and preempt all state laws that provide less protection to...more
In his 2021 Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy, President Biden called on the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) to “ban or limit non-compete agreements.” Last week, the FTC responded by taking...more