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Colorado Enacts New Limits on Restrictive Covenants

Snell & Wilmer on 7/30/2025

Effective August 6, 2025, SB25-083 will void non-competition and non-solicitation of customer provisions entered into or renewed by doctors, nurses, midwives, and dentists on or after this effective date. Employers who...more

Florida Makes a Bold "CHOICE": New Law Strengthens Enforceability of Non-Compete Agreements

Akerman LLP on 7/10/2025

The Contracts Honoring Opportunity, Investment, Confidentiality, and Economic Growth (CHOICE) Act became law on July 3, 2025, expanding employers’ rights in enforcing non-compete and garden leave agreements with Florida-based...more

Changes to Virginia’s Noncompete Statute

Troutman Pepper Locke on 5/13/2025

Effective July 1, new legislation will take effect in Virginia imposing further restrictions on the use of covenants not to compete and prohibiting their use for employees who are eligible to receive overtime pay under the...more

Feeling Competitive: The Reasonableness of Forfeiture-for-Competition Provisions

Troutman Pepper Locke on 4/4/2025

In 2024, employers rushed to track the twists and turns of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) noncompete ban, which attempted to limit the enforceability of agreements that restrict employees from working for a competitor...more

July is Still the New January! Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute’s Mid-Year Legislative Report

Littler on 6/21/2024

Hot off the press – here is Littler’s mid-year report! As federal regulators, states and cities continue to pass new workplace regulations through the calendar year, we summarize each state’s notable labor and employment law...more

Colorado’s Amended Equal Pay for Equal Work Act: What Employers Need to Know Now

Fox Rothschild LLP on 12/21/2023

The requirements of Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (EPEWA) are changing. Since January 1, 2021, Part 2 of the EPEWA has required transparency in pay and job opportunities. Last summer, however, the Colorado...more

New Labor Day Labor Laws for New York

Foley & Lardner LLP on 9/19/2023

As summer turns to fall, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul, with choreographed fanfare, celebrated Labor Day by signing several employment-related bills into law. Notably missing from the Governor’s autograph spree was...more

10 Takeaways as New Jersey Set to Drastically Limit Non-Competes and Other Restrictive Covenants

Fisher Phillips on 6/1/2022

The New Jersey legislature is currently considering legislation that would add the state to the growing list of jurisdictions that have significantly limited the scope and enforceability of non-competition agreements and...more

2022 Washington Compensation Requirements, Changes in the PFML Premiums and Benefits, and the New WA Cares Act Premiums

Miller Nash LLP on 11/23/2021

2022 Washington Compensation Requirements for Minimum Wage, Exemptions, and Noncompetition Agreements Each year, the Washington State minimum wage, white-collar exemption minimum salary level, and minimum earnings thresholds...more

Compass: Insights And Direction For Employers – Winter 2020

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 1/3/2020

With the start of a new year, in-house counsel and human resources professionals will want to be aware of what’s on the horizon for 2020 and beyond. It’s a good time for employers to take a breath and consider what issues...more

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