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No Slowing Down: Employers’ Recap of the Trump Administration’s First 50 Days

Fisher Phillips on 3/13/2025

While new presidents are typically judged based on their actions in their first 100 days, the current Trump administration has moved at such a rapid speed that we think another recap is needed at the halfway point. Here’s...more

The FTC's New Rule Invalidates Most Non-Competition Clauses

Flaster Greenberg PC on 5/2/2024

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), in a 3-2 vote, approved a final rule that renders existing non-competition agreements for employees working in for-profit businesses unenforceable, with the exception...more

FTC Issues Final Rule Banning Non-Compete Agreements

Rumberger | Kirk on 4/30/2024

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission voted in favor of issuing a Final Rule banning non-compete agreements, declaring them an unfair method of competition. The Final Rule will go into effect 120 days after being...more

FTC Finalizes Non-Compete Rule

Seward & Kissel LLP on 4/30/2024

On April 24, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission ( “FTC”) published a sweeping ban on non-competes (“Rule”). The Rule passed by a 3-2 vote, with the FTC’s Democratic commissioners voting in favor, and Republican commissioners...more

FTC Rule Bans New Non-Compete Agreements Nationwide

Payne & Fears on 4/26/2024

Today, the FTC approved and issued its Final Rule that, in effect, bans all post-employment non-competes nationwide. The rule applies not only to new non-competes, but to most agreements already in force as well. Like the...more

FTC Issues Final Rule Banning Most Non-Compete Agreements: Takeaways and Next Steps for Employers

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP on 4/26/2024

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) voted 3-2 to promulgate a Final Rule that prohibits the use of almost all non-compete clauses in employment contracts. Absent an effective legal challenge delaying or...more

FTC Issues Final Rule Banning Noncompete Agreements

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 4/26/2024

On Tuesday, April 23rd, the Federal Trade Commission voted to enact a final rule banning most non-compete agreements between employers and employees. Generally, non-compete agreements prohibit employees from engaging in...more

In Split Vote, FTC Approves Controversial Final Rule Banning Most Post-Employment Non-Competes; Rule Already Subject to Challenge...

Mintz - Antitrust Viewpoints on 4/26/2024

On April 23, 2024, by a 3-2 margin, the FTC voted to finalize its controversial non-compete rule, which, generally, will prohibit businesses from entering into non-compete agreements with nearly all workers across the U.S....more

Employers Beware: FTC Announces Final Rule Banning Worker Non-Competes

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 4/26/2024

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

FTC Issues Rule to Ban Non-Competes; U.S. Chamber Threatens Lawsuit; What Do Employers Need to Know?

Adams & Reese on 4/26/2024

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued the Non-Compete Clause Rule on Tuesday, calling for a comprehensive ban on non-compete agreements nationwide. The FTC concluded that non-competes are an “unfair method of competition...more

Federal Trade Commission Issues Rule Banning Non-Competes in the Workplace

Jackson Walker on 4/25/2024

On April 23, 2024, in a 3 to 2 vote, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted to implement its final rule prohibiting non-compete agreements in the workplace. What the Final Rule Prohibits - Scheduled to take effect 120 days...more

FTC Bans Noncompete Agreements: What employers need to know about the FTC’s Noncompete Rule

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 4/25/2024

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued a Final Rule (the “Rule”) prohibiting the use of non-compete restrictive covenants (with a limited exception) throughout the United States as an unfair method of...more

FTC announces nationwide ban on noncompetes in the workplace

McAfee & Taft on 4/25/2024

More than a year after the Federal Trade Commission proposed a game-changing nationwide ban on noncompete agreements, the agency yesterday issued its final rule for implementing the ban. The prohibition, which is slated to go...more

FTC Charges Forward with Sweeping Non-Compete Ban

Ward and Smith, P.A. on 4/25/2024

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") narrowly voted (3-2) to issue a final rule banning almost all non-compete agreements nationwide. The rule is set to take effect 120 days after it is published in the...more

FTC Bans Noncompetes

Holland & Hart - Employers' Lawyers on 4/25/2024

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a new rule broadly banning noncompete agreements, marking a sea change in their regulation, which previously has been primarily governed by state law. Once effective, existing...more

FTC Issues Near-Total Ban on Non-Competes in Final Rule, with a Narrow Exception for Existing Agreements with “Senior Executives”

King & Spalding on 4/25/2024

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in a party-line vote, approved its final rule banning most non-compete agreements. The final rule bans all non-competes nationwide, including de facto non-competes,...more

BREAKING NEWS: The FTC’s New Rule Invalidates Most Non-competition Clauses

Flaster Greenberg PC on 4/25/2024

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), in a 3-2 vote, approved a final rule that renders existing non-competition agreements for employees working in for-profit businesses unenforceable, with the exception...more

Federal Trade Commission Prohibits Nearly All Non-Compete Agreements

White and Williams LLP on 4/25/2024

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-2 to approve the Final Rule that (1) prohibits employers from entering into non-compete agreements with workers and (2) requires employers to rescind nearly all...more

FTC Approves Final Rule to Void and Ban Most Employee Non-Compete Agreements, Faces Immediate Legal Challenges

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 4/25/2024

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved, by a 3-2 vote, a final rule that would void and ban nearly all employee non-compete agreements in the United States. The rule will take effect 120 days after it...more

Federal Trade Commission Approves Final Rule Banning Most Noncompetes

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 4/25/2024

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) voted 3-2 to issue a proposed final rule (“Final Rule”), which, absent a successful legal challenge, will ban most noncompete agreements in the United States. Despite...more

FTC Finalizes Rule Against Employee Noncompetes

Foley & Lardner LLP on 4/25/2024

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or the “Commission”) voted to finalize a rule abolishing the vast majority of employee noncompetes across the United States (the “Noncompete Rule” or “Rule”). The FTC...more

Workplace Law Forecast 2024 - Your workplace law recap for 2023 and predictions for 2024 to help you prepare for the coming year.

Fisher Phillips on 12/4/2023

When I reflect on the relationship that our firm has with our clients, I’m most proud of the fact that you can always count on us. That often means defending complex litigation, steering you through regulatory threats,...more

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