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July 1 marked the effective date for three new laws that will create new rights for workers and new obligations for employers in Virginia: - Expansion of Non-Compete Ban – Virginia employers are now prohibited from...more
Virginia has further restricted noncompete agreements. Effective July 1, 2025, Virginia Code § 40.1-28.7:8 will prohibit Virginia employers from entering into non-competition agreements with employees who are classified as...more
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has signed Senate Bill 1218 into law, amending the state’s non-compete statute. Effective July 1, 2025, the updated law will broaden restrictions on non-compete agreements in Virginia....more
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
On March 24, 2025, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin signed Senate Bill 1218 into law, expanding the Commonwealth’s restrictions on non-competition agreements. Effective July 1, 2025, Virginia employers will be prohibited from...more
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin recently signed legislation expanding the state’s limitations on the use of noncompetition agreements in employment. Currently, Virginia prohibits employers from entering into noncompetes with...more
Beginning on July 1, 2025, Virginia’s existing non-compete statute, Va. Code § 40.1-28.7:8, will be expanded to prohibit post-employment non-compete agreements and certain non-solicitation covenants with any non-exempt...more
Virginia is the most recent state to tighten restrictions on employment non-compete agreements. Governor Glenn Youngkin signed a bill expanding the definition of low-wage employees under the state’s existing prohibition on...more
Beginning July 1, 2025, Virginia will prohibit noncompete agreements for all employees eligible for overtime pay. The new law builds on previous prohibitions for “low-wage employees” in the Commonwealth....more
Continuing a nationwide trend, three states recently enacted new legislation further restricting the enforceability of non-compete provisions in employment agreements. Starting in July, these new regulations are set to take...more
Virginia lawmakers extended the state’s ban on non-compete agreements to cover all non-exempt employees. This new law affects how employers can enter non-compete agreements with even more of their employees and goes into...more
At the end of March, Governor Glenn Youngkin signed SB 1218, which amends Virginia’s non-compete ban for “low-wage” workers (the “Act”) to include non-exempt employees under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (the “FLSA”)....more
Two administrative agencies within the federal government have been busy lately publishing new rules that govern important aspects of employers’ relationships with their employees. Read more below for further updates....more
New Jersey may be next up to join the growing number of states that significantly restrict the use of non-competition agreements in employment. As we discussed back in December 2017, a bill proposed in New Jersey at the...more
This edition of Employment Flash looks at a series of recent NLRB decisions, many of which apply to all employers, not just those with unionized employees. We also discuss other U.S. federal and state labor and...more
This latest installment of The Restricting Covenant series highlights the significant changes coming to Washington State regarding non-compete agreements (it’s a game changer), as well as similar legislation (passed and...more
Effective October 1, 2018, employers in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and other states seeking to hold Massachusetts employees to noncompete agreements must meet the requirements of a new law passed by the Massachusetts...more
Employers requiring lower-wage employees to sign and abide by non-competition and non-solicitation of clients provisions may want to find another mechanism to protect business goodwill and confidential information. Courts...more
Last week, Florida Senator Marco Rubio introduced the “Freedom to Compete Act” (the “Act”) proposing to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 to ban non-competes for most non-exempt workers. ...more
Nutter Partner David Rubin recently contributed an article to Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly that analyzed the Massachusetts Noncompetition Agreement Act. In the article, “Thorny Questions, Issues Emerging as Noncompete Act...more
The Massachusetts legislature is back at it again — as the Boston Globe reports, the Joint Committee on Labor & Workforce Development has sponsored a compromise bill with the goal of limiting non-competes in the Commonwealth....more
In March, we reported that Massachusetts House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo had announced his support for legislative restrictions on employee noncompetition agreements, signaling a potential turning point in the long-running...more
Legislation limiting employee non-compete agreements in Massachusetts advanced on Monday in the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development. Co-chaired by Rep. John Scibak and Sen. Dan Wolf, the Committee approved a...more
It's December, and human resources professionals and law departments are reflecting on the issues addressed in 2013 and giving thanks for incident-free holiday parties. But the big question is this: What issues should get...more