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Many employers experienced whiplash in 2023 from the flurry of judicial, administrative and legislative activity aimed at restricting the use of employee non-competition, non-solicitation, and non-disclosure agreements. Can...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a Proposed Rule which, if implemented, would prohibit employers from entering into or attempting to enter into, “a non-compete clause with a worker; maintain with a worker a...more
Join attorneys from Ulmer’s Employment and Labor and Intellectiual Property Pracrices as they host a complimentary webinar on the impact of the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) January 2023 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking...more
On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a proposed rule that, if enacted, would amount to a near-total ban on the use of non-compete agreements nationwide. If enacted as written, the FTC’s proposed...more
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Williams Mullen attorneys Jim Burns (Antitrust & Trade Regulation) and Laura Windsor (Labor, Employment & Immigration) discuss the recent seismic movements at the FTC regarding a proposed rule banning non-competes in...more
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The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently issued a proposed rule that, if adopted, would broadly prohibit employers from entering into post-employment non-compete agreements with workers, and would also...more
Future of Non-Competes Up in the Air - The FTC recently announced its proposal to ban non-compete clauses in employment agreements. That proposal is currently in a 60-day period of public comment, and employers are...more
On January 11, 2023, Elizabeth Wilkins, the Federal Trade Commission’s Director of the Office of Planning and lead staffer for the FTC’s newly proposed ban on non-competes, provided comments and answered questions about the...more
What You Need to Know- •The FTC has proposed a new rule which, if adopted in its current form, would prohibit nearly all private employers from entering into or enforcing non-compete agreements with their employees. •The...more
On January 5, 2023, the FTC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“proposed Rule”) that would ban most non-competition agreements in the United States and put to the wastebin the 50-state patchwork of laws that currently...more
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On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) proposed a sweeping rule that would ban the use of non-compete provisions in employment contracts and require employers to nullify any existing non-compete clauses...more
In response to a 2021 Executive Order from President Biden, on January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued notice of a proposed rule that will prohibit most forms of noncompete agreements between employers and...more
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