Non-Compete Compliance in 2025: State Trends and Employer Strategies
Multijurisdictional Employers, P2: 2025 State-by-State Updates on Non-Compete/Non-Solicitation Agts
Legal Shifts in 2025 Put Employer Non-Compete Strategies at Risk - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
Trade Secrets on Trial: Strategic Decisions for the Courtroom - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
Update on the State of Non-compete Restrictions (LaborSpeak)
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 42: Non-Compete Agreements with Mitchell Greggs of Maynard Nexsen
#WorkforceWednesday®: Trade Secret Litigation - Lessons from High-Stakes Group Exits - Spilling Secrets Podcast - Employment Law This Week®
Navigating Restrictive Covenants in Private Equity — PE Pathways Podcast
#WorkforceWednesday®: 2024’s Biggest Trade Secrets and Non-Compete Developments - Spilling Secrets Podcast - Employment Law This Week®
#WorkforceWednesday®: Beyond Non-Competes - IP and Trade Secret Assessment Strategies for Employers - Spilling Secrets Podcast - Employment Law This Week®
Labor Law Insider - Non-Competes, Including “Pay-or-Stay” Provisions, Under Continued Assault
#WorkforceWednesday®: Wizarding and the World of Trade Secrets - Spilling Secrets Podcast - Employment Law This Week®
#WorkforceWednesday®: After the Block - What’s Next for Employers and Non-Competes? - Spilling Secrets Podcast - Employment Law This Week®
Exploring Employment Law Across Borders: Italy vs. US With White Lotus — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Employment Law Now VIII-150 - The FTC Noncompete Rule is Dead: What Now?
California Employment News: Court Ruling Halts FTC’s Non-Compete Ban – Implications for Employers
#WorkforceWednesday®: What the FTC Non-Compete Ban Block Means for Employers - Employment Law This Week®
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Employment Law Edition: The Latest on Non-Competes and Independent Contractors
Balch’s Decision Dive: Texas Trial Court Struck Down the FTC’s Noncompete Rule
Employment Law Now VIII-146 - Latest Update on FTC Non-Compete Ban Plus 3 Summer Reminders for Employers
With the FTC Ban on non-competes essentially dead in the Courts of Appeal, various states and agencies have taken up the mantle to further limit or expand the use of restrictive covenants for certain populations in 2025....more
On February 14, 2025, newly appointed National Labor Relations Board Acting General Counsel William Cowen issued a General Counsel memorandum rescinding several memoranda issued by prior NLRB GC Jennifer Abruzzo. Among of...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) can change subject to political whims – particularly since the President appoints the agency’s board members and the Office of the General Counsel. Interestingly, on January 25,...more
Welcome to our first issue of SuperVision in 2025. In this edition, we cover the new presidential administration’s anticipated impact on employment agreements, the National Labor Relations Board, and workplace safety...more
On February 14, 2025, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) acting General Counsel William B. Cowen rescinded several memoranda issued by the former NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo. The rescinded memoranda include, GC...more
This week, on our Spilling Secrets podcast series, our panelists look back on the top trade secrets and non-compete stories of the year: This year has been a rollercoaster for trade secrets and non-compete law. We’ve seen...more
As we close out 2024 and look to 2025, I polled members of Spilman, myself included, to get their take on some of the biggest labor and employment developments from 2024 that have or will impact employers. You can find more...more
On October 7, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued GC Memorandum 25-01: “Remedying the Harmful Effects of Non-Compete and “Stay-or-Pay” Provisions that Violate the National...more
Husch Blackwell partner Tyler Paetkau joins Labor Law Insider host Tom Godar to discuss the latest assault on non-compete agreements and their various iterations. While an August 2024 district court order enjoined the Federal...more
Employers take note: a series of recent developments could impact the way that companies across the country handle non-competition restrictions and retention rules. First, recent developments in the legal challenges to the...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel is cracking down on stay-or-pay provisions. Here are takeaways for employers from an October 7 memo: As a reminder, the NLRA only applies to non-supervisory employees,...more
We previously reported on a May 2023 memorandum issued by the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board), Jennifer A. Abruzzo, stating her view that “the proffer, maintenance, and enforcement” of...more
On May 30, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) General Counsel (GC), Jennifer Abruzzo, issued a memorandum setting forth the GC’s position that the proffer, maintenance, or enforcement of noncompete agreements...more
Last week, the National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel Jennifer A. Abruzzo (the “GC”) announced her position that “stay-or-pay” provisions in employment agreements are unlawful under the National Labor Relations Act...more
We previously reported that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum in May 2023 advancing the position that non-compete agreements between employers and...more
On October 7, 2024, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo released Memorandum GC 25-1 titled "Remedying the Harmful Effects of Non-Compete and 'Stay-or-Pay' Provisions that Violate the...more
On October 7, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) top prosecutor issued a memo to NLRB regional offices, solidifying the hard line her office will take on noncompete and “stay-or-pay” agreements and calling for...more
On October 7, 2024, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued Memorandum GC 25-01 (Memo), setting forth aggressive new remedies for unlawful noncompete and “stay-or-pay” provisions as well...more
On October 7, 2024, National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued Memorandum GC 25-01 where she takes the position that most “stay-or-pay provisions” violate the National Labor Relations Act...more
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo released GC Memo 25-01 on October 7, 2024 further urging the Board to find non-compete agreements, particularly “stay-or-pay” practices, unlawful and...more
Last year, National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) General Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, issued GC Memorandum 23-08 opining that, with some exceptions, the maintenance and enforcement of non-compete agreements...more
The General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") issued Memorandum GC 25-01 on October 7, 2024, which establishes her intent to "urge the Board not only to find certain non-compete provisions unlawful, but...more
On October 7, 2024, the General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) issued a memorandum offering her perspective on damages employers may face when enforcing allegedly unlawful non-compete agreements, and...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum this week titled "Remedying the Harmful Effects of Non-Compete and 'Stay-or-Pay' Provisions that Violate the National Labor...more
On October 7, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer A. Abruzzo issued Memorandum GC 25-01, reinforcing and expanding previous positions on how certain restrictive covenants may violate the National...more