On April 8, 2025, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly signed Senate Bill 241 (SB 241) into law, amending the Kansas Restraint of Trade Act (K.S.A. 50-163). Taking effect on July 1, 2025, this new employer-friendly legislation...more
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As discussed in our previous article, the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) newly enacted Non-Compete Clause Rule (“Rule”) is set to go into effect on September 4, 2024, by its own terms. The Rule would virtually ban all...more
In the wake of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) proposed rule that would effectively ban non-compete agreements nationwide, on February 1, 2023, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators have renewed their efforts to ban the...more
On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission announced a proposed rule that, if enacted, would amount to a near-total ban on the use of non-compete agreements and leave employers with fewer legal means of protecting their...more