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Non-Compete Agreements are contracts, typically formed in employment or business purchase contexts, where one party agrees to refrain from engaging in a particular line of work or pursuing business within a certain industry or locale. The purpose of these agreements is to protect employers or business purchasers from competition stemming from former employees or former owners of a business. less -

Fourth Circuit Says Use of Noncompetes Indicates Employment Instead of Contractor Relationship

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 7/25/2025

In recent years, state courts have questioned whether independent contractors can be placed under enforceable post-engagement noncompetition agreements. ...more

FTC Final Rule on Non-Competes: Employer Should Consider Compliance Preparations and Implications

King & Spalding on 8/9/2024

At present, the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) final rule on non-competes (the “Rule”) is set to go into effect on September 4, 2024 for virtually every for-profit employer in the United States. Though legal...more

SuperVision - Labor & Employment Law Insights, Issue 1, April 2024

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 4/25/2024

Welcome to our first SuperVision e-newsletter of 2024. Although we are only four months into 2024, it has already been an incredibly active year on the labor and employment front. On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission...more

Employment Flash - March 2024

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 3/25/2024

In this issue of Employment Flash: the new DOL rule on independent contractors, SCOTUS’s unanimous Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower ruling, plus labor law developments in California, Delaware, D.C., New York, the EU, Germany and...more

Deciphered Insights: Labor and Employment Legal Considerations

Ward and Smith, P.A. on 1/29/2024

Five Ward and Smith attorneys provided updates related to employment law, including non-compete agreements, unionization efforts, pregnancy laws, and overtime rules for exempt employees, during the firm’s recent In-House...more

Common Diligence Issues for Startup and Emerging Technology Companies

Foley & Lardner LLP on 10/21/2022

As an emerging or startup technology company seeking funding, your focus is likely on your product - it is the core of your business. That being said, how you protect your technology and set up the company that owns it can be...more

Goodbye 2019, Hello 2020

Stoel Rives - World of Employment on 12/20/2019

As 2019 comes to an end, employers should know about important new obligations that will ring in their new year. Our Labor & Employment experts offer some guidance on critical developments in Oregon, Washington, California,...more

2016/2017 Labor & Employment Observer

Cozen O'Connor on 1/12/2017

Activist NLRB Created More Problems For All Employers in 2016 - What Happens Under President Trump? During 2016, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) maintained its generally pro-union, anti-employer...more

You're fired! Want to continue to work for us as an Independent Contractor?

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 2/17/2015

This post was contributed by Jennifer E. Will, an Attorney in McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC's Labor & Employment Practice Group in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. If you do, you'll need to sign a release and waive all of your...more

15 For ’15: Employment And Labor Resolutions For The New Year

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 1/8/2015

While the year is still young, here are 15 New Year’s resolutions that employers may want to make: 1. Make sure your “independent contractors” are really independent contractors. ”Independent contractors” are under...more

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