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Florida’s CHOICE Act, short for “Contracts Honoring Opportunity, Investment, Confidentiality, and Economic Growth” (CHOICE), is now law. For details of the Act, see Florida’s CHOICE Act Offers Employers Unprecedented Tools...more
In a departure from the legislative trends in certain states to curtail post-employment restraints, the state of Florida has bucked the tide to take the most employer friendly approach to restrictive covenants. On April 24,...more
Question: Last year we heard that the Federal Trade Commission was going to ban covenants not to compete. It was a big deal at the time. Nothing has been said about this in months. Is this still going to happen? If so, when? ...more
Florida’s newly enacted Contracts Honoring Opportunity, Investment, Confidentiality, and Economic Growth (CHOICE) Act brings sweeping changes to the enforceability of noncompete and garden leave agreements across the state....more
Effective July 1, 2025, Florida's Contracts Honoring Opportunity, Investment, Confidentiality, and Economic Growth Act (the CHOICE Act) now allows for non-competition periods of up to four (4) years after the end of...more
The proposed Florida Contracts Honoring Opportunity, Investment, Confidentiality and Economic Growth (CHOICE) Act marks a substantial development in Florida’s treatment of noncompete agreements....more
On April 24, 2025, the Florida legislature passed the Florida Contracts Honoring Opportunity, Investment, Confidentiality, and Economic Growth, or CHOICE, Act. The CHOICE Act goes into effect on July 1, 2025. The CHOICE...more
The New Jersey Legislature is considering a bill (S4385/A5708) banning non-compete clauses, with limited exceptions, and prohibiting no-poach agreements between employers and workers. Appearing to take a page from the now...more
Last year in April, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a rule to ban most non-compete agreements nationwide. Within hours the rule was challenged in courts across the country, and after months of federal litigation...more
On April 9, 2025, Kansas Governor Laura Kelley signed into law Senate Bill No. 241 (the “Bill”), which amends the Kansas Restraint of Trade Act (the “Act”) to (a) create presumptions of enforceability for non-solicitation...more
On February 14, the new general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), William Cowen, rescinded more than 25 previously issued policy memoranda....more
In line with the national trend making noncompetes more difficult to enforce, a number of Delaware courts have recently refused to “blue pencil” overbroad noncompetition agreements and have stricken them in their entirety. As...more
On May 30, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) General Counsel (GC), Jennifer Abruzzo, issued a memorandum setting forth the GC’s position that the proffer, maintenance, or enforcement of noncompete agreements...more
The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business....more
A recent District of Arizona opinion—Berkadia Real Est. Advisors LLC v. Wadlund, 2024 WL 4125533—found two different non-compete agreements to be unenforceable: one that was ancillary to the sale of a business and one that...more
Last week, the California Legislature passed several bills that, if signed by the governor, will regulate how organizations develop, train, and use artificial intelligence (AI) models, systems, and applications. Of these...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently issued the Consumer Financial Protection Circular 2024-04 warning financial institutions that broad employee confidentiality agreements may violate the whistleblower...more
The effective date of the FTC’s Final Rule prohibiting non-compete agreements quickly approaches, yet there is still no definitive resolution as to whether it is constitutional. Nor has there been any preliminary injunction...more
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Commission issued an order July 3, 2024, enjoining the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from enforcing its Non-Compete Rule (Rule). The...more
When the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its long-awaited final rule banning virtually all noncompete clauses between workers and employers, it also published 500-plus pages of commentary....more
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On April 23, the Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 to adopt a final rule banning noncompete agreements. The FTC defines a "non-compete clause" broadly as a term or condition of employment that prohibits a worker from, or...more
Today the Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 to approve a Final Rule that, absent a successful legal challenge, will ban most noncompete agreements in the United States beginning 120 days after publication in the Federal...more
2023 was a banner year for trade secrets, non-competes, and other restrictive covenants. Employee non-competes continued to garner attention at the federal agency level, drawing commentary and action from the Federal Trade...more
Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor and Federal Trade Commission announced that they have entered into a memorandum of understanding for the purpose of sharing information and coordinating enforcement efforts. The...more