The Final Rule, if it survives significant legal challenges and the challenges yet to come, will ban all existing and future non-compete agreements with workers, with only narrow exceptions.
The FTC Final Rule imposes a...more
4/26/2024
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The New York legislature has passed a bill banning future employee non-competes, regardless of pay thresholds or job functions, and even in the sale-of-business context.
The bill allows limited customer non-solicitation...more
The Notice would ban all existing and future non-compete agreements with workers, with a narrow exception in connection with the sale of a business by any individual holding at least a 25% interest in such business.
The...more
A new DC law restricts DC employers from entering into non-compete agreements with employees earning less than $150,000 as of October 1, 2022, whereas the prior iteration of the law would have imposed a near universal ban on...more
9/29/2022
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