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#WorkforceWednesday: Non-Compete Law Update – Key Developments from 2023 - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
Podcast - The Latest on Antitrust and Non-Compete Agreements in Healthcare
#WorkforceWednesday: Noncompete Bans Spread to New York and Beyond - Employment Law This Week®
Exploring the FTC’s Proposed Ban on Noncompetes (Fairly Competing, Episode 20)
Trade Secret / Restrictive Covenant 2022 Year In Review (Fairly Competing, Episode 19)
#WorkforceWednesday: Spilling Secrets: Employers - Train on Trade Secrets - Employment Law This Week®
Sign on the Dotted Line: Negotiating an Effective Employment Agreement
#WorkforceWednesday: Spilling Secrets: Restrictive Covenants in the Remote Work Boom - Employment Law This Week®
MLM Defense: FTC Earnings Claims and Nonsolicitation Clauses
#WorkforceWednesday: Pay Data Collection Study, Colorado Non-Compete Restrictions, D.C. Circuit Vacates Browning-Ferris - Employment Law This Week®
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NGE On Demand: "What do Foreign-based Employers Need to Know About U.S. Employment Law?" with Sonya Rosenberg
Reasonable minds can differ: Part 2
Revisiting Executive Compensation and Employee Incentive Plans
Non-Competes and Other Restrictive Covenants: Two Perspectives, One Clear Picture
Non-Competes Are Not So Bad! The Current Law and Why Proposed Legislation in Congress is an Overreaction
National Backlash Builds Against Non-Compete Agreements - Employment Law This Week® - Trending News
III-42-The New Overtime Rule and Antitrust Issues With Your Non-Competes
Employment Law This Week®: Crackdown on Non-Solicitation Agreements, DOL Opinion Letters, New NLRB Member, State Law Developments
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In June 2025, the European Commission (EC) and the French Competition Authority (FCA) took enforcement action against three cartels involving “no-poach” practices – agreements not to hire or solicit rivals’ employees. Five...more
As the legal landscape around restrictive covenants continues to evolve, staying ahead of changes in non-compete and non-solicitation laws is critical for employers, their HR professionals, and in-house counsel. Don’t miss...more
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Recent amendments to the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (Ontario) and the Competition Act (Canada) may be sounding the death knell for certain restricted covenants in Ontario—both non-competition covenants given by employees,...more
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Employment-related antitrust regulation is intensifying amid a volatile labor market so Mark Henriques asked David Hamilton and Sarah Motley Stone, two of Womble Bond Dickinson's brightest minds on this subject, to share some...more
Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed into law Public Act 102-0358 (“Act”), which dramatically reforms the law in Illinois governing both noncompete and nonsolicit provisions. The Act is not retroactive, and goes into effect...more
That which is old is new again. The U.S. Department of Justice and plaintiffs’ lawyers are taking aim at non-solicitation agreements restricting mobility of labor. This isn’t something employers usually think about. ...more
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On Thursday, March 7, the Antitrust Division intervened in three antitrust class actions to urge the court that no-poach agreements between vertically related firms, such as between franchisor and franchisee, should be...more
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