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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 -

Employer Cheat Sheet for Workplace Laws Taking Effect July 1

Fisher Phillips on 6/24/2025

Most employers are prepared for new laws at the start of each year – but did you know that a heap of new workplace laws take effect at the halfway point? Here’s your employer cheat sheet to prepare for July 1 effective dates…...more

New Minnesota Law Voids Restrictive Employment Covenants in Service Contracts, Except for Computer Professionals

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 8/9/2024

Minnesota’s legislature rushed through several bills this year affecting recruiting and staffing associations and other service providers such as property management companies. One such law may, as one member of the Minnesota...more

Pennsylvania Bans Healthcare Practitioner Noncompete Agreements Longer Than 1 Year

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 7/24/2024

In a major noncompete development for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, beginning January 1, 2025, certain noncompete agreements with doctors, registered nurses, and other healthcare practitioners will no longer be...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

Washington’s Amended Non-Compete Law Creates New Considerations for Employers

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 5/21/2024

Washington Governor Jay Inslee recently signed Senate Bill 5935 into law, amending and expanding Washington’s statute restricting the enforceability of noncompetition covenants (Revised Code of Washington 49.2). The amended...more

The Federal Trade Commission Ban on Non-Competes and its Impact on Transitioning Representatives and Advisors

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC on 5/20/2024

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its final rule banning non-compete provisions nationwide (the Rule). While the FTC contends that non-competes keep wages low, suppress new ideas and stifle the...more

New California Law Requires Notice to Employees About Void Noncompetes

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 3/1/2024

Most employers know that California has for decades prevented enforcement of employee non-competition and customer non-solicitation agreements. Some companies with California operations modify their agreements with employees...more

California Employers Face Feb. 14 Deadline and Tighter Non-Compete Prohibitions

ArentFox Schiff on 1/26/2024

California has long had the most restrictive laws against employee non-compete agreements. Effective January 1, two new legislative bills, Senate Bill 699 and Assembly Bill 1076, tightened California’s restrictions even...more

California Employers, Start the New Year Right: Act on Noncompete Provisions by February 14!

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP on 1/5/2024

With the new year, California employers face a changed legal landscape that impacts noncompete agreements with employees, with some new legal requirements having a short deadline for personalized communications to certain...more

New California Non-Compete Laws Add Teeth to State’s Non-Competition Prohibition

WilmerHale on 11/15/2023

2023 has seen its fair share of headlines with respect to developments in non-competition law: in January, the Federal Trade Commission proposed a rule that would ban most non-competes; in May, the National Labor Relations...more

PEO Pointers: 2-Step Plan to Comply with Surprising New California Non-Compete Law

Fisher Phillips on 11/14/2023

Welcome to “PEO Pointers,” a regular series of quick-read alerts to keep PEOs and their client companies up to speed on the latest issues affecting the industry and what they can do to ensure compliance. Today’s topic: new...more

California’s New Employment Laws for 2024: A Roundup of New Laws

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 11/7/2023

Governor Newsom recently signed into law numerous bills that will affect California employers come January 1, 2024. Here is a quick overview of some of the new law that are relevant for employers....more

[Webinar] Employment & Employee Benefits Law Update: Staying Compliant in 2024 - November 16th, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm PT

Nossaman LLP on 11/6/2023

Join us on November 16, 2023, as Nossaman’s Allison Callaghan, Pavneet Singh Mac, Michelle McCarthy and Julia Botezatu discuss new California employment and employee benefits laws and regulations, as well as recent case law...more

California Amends Noncompete Law (Again) and Adds a Notice Requirement

Epstein Becker & Green on 10/27/2023

California’s Business and Professions Code (the “Code”) has long been the nation’s strictest law on restrictive covenants, essentially prohibiting employee noncompetition agreements except in limited circumstances....more

Here Are the Top 10 New Laws Coming Soon to California Workplaces and 5 Key Bills the Governor Surprisingly Vetoed

Fisher Phillips on 10/16/2023

California employers know that the new year inevitably brings new workplace laws that are finalized at the end of the state’s legislative session in the fall. This year, state lawmakers considered over 2,700 bills – the most...more

4 Things Employers Need to Know About the New Noncompete Laws in California

Fisher Phillips on 10/16/2023

Everyone knows that noncompete agreements are generally unenforceable in California and there’s not much more to be said, right? California lawmakers think differently and thus have taken steps to equip employees with new...more

Colorado’s New Restrictive Covenant Law Now Effective

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 9/2/2022

On August 10, 2022, Colorado House Bill 22-1317 became law. Following the national trend of limiting employer use of non-compete and non-solicit covenants, Colorado now prohibits the use of non-competes and non-solicits...more

Colorado Continues to Whittle Away at Non-Compete Agreements

McDermott Will & Schulte on 8/10/2022

Effective August 10, 2022, Colorado’s laws governing restrictive covenants shall be amended to provide additional limitations and hurdles for employers who seek non-compete and non-solicit agreements with their employees,...more

Big Changes Coming to Colorado Noncompetition Law

BakerHostetler on 7/1/2022

Colorado employers have less than two months to bring their noncompetition restrictions into compliance with HB22-1317, a bill passed by the Colorado Legislature in May 2022. HB22-1317, also known as the Restrictive...more

Colorado Set to Severely Limit Non-Competes and Other Restrictive Covenants: A 5-Step Action Plan for Employers

Fisher Phillips on 5/12/2022

Colorado lawmakers just passed a law that will bring dramatic change to the non-compete landscape by significantly limiting the circumstances under which restrictive covenants may be used – virtually ending the practice of...more

Washington, D.C., Ban on Non-Competes Postponed Until October 2022

Perkins Coie on 3/31/2022

Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the District of Columbia’s Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Amendment Act of 2020 (D.C. Act 23-563) (the Act) on January 11, 2021. The Act includes one of the most expansive bans on non-compete...more

Employment Agreements: DC’s Recent Ban on Non-Competes is One of the Broadest in the Country

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 3/24/2021

On January 11, 2021, the mayor of the District of Columbia, Muriel Bowser, signed the Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Amendment Act of 2020 (the “Act”), which is set to be one of the broadest and most expansive bans on...more

Washington, D.C. Passes Legislation Banning Non-Compete Agreements: A 5-Step Action Plan For Employers

Fisher Phillips on 1/13/2021

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser just signed into law one of the most restrictive pieces of legislation in the nation relating to employers’ use of non-compete agreements to prevent employees from working for competitors....more

Change in the Commonwealth: Reviewing Virginia’s Expansive New Employment Legislation Taking Effect Today

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 7/1/2020

For months, Virginia employers have heard about the new wave of employee-friendly legislation that will create additional costs and challenges for Virginia employers. Today, as Virginia enters Phase 3 of its reopening plan,...more

Working Wise: New Oregon Legislation of Importance for Employers

K&L Gates LLP on 12/10/2019

The Oregon legislature was active in 2019. Several new laws were passed that impact employers, including a longer statute of limitations for employment claims, paid family leave, and additional requirements for...more

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