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Employment Law Now VIII-144 – Current AI Regulatory Landscape and Employer Best Practices
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California Employment News: Effective Disciplinary Procedures and Policies
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DE Talk Podcast | The Platinum Rule of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Effective Date: 120 days after the final rule is published in the Federal Register, likely in late August or early September 2024....more
On April 23, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-2 to approve a Final Rule (the Final Rule) that, if allowed to take effect, would ban nearly all non-competes with employees and other workers and substantially change...more
On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a final rule banning employers from enforcing non-compete agreements against any non-executive employee (“Non-Compete Clause Rule”). As suspected, business...more
On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a final rule adopting a comprehensive ban on non-competition agreements and clauses, which prevent workers from leaving for a competitor for a certain period of...more
On April 23, 2024, the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) voted 3-to-2 along party lines to approve a final rule (Rule) that prevents all for-profit employers nationwide from using non-compete agreements for any worker (whether...more
Maybe don’t get a drink with your competitor. These are not easy times to be in human resources. Attracting, recruiting, and retaining talented employees is as challenging as ever. As I have previously written, wages are...more
Whether you are an employer attempting to maintain and enforce non-compete provisions in contracts with your employees, or an employee trying to navigate career developments despite being subject to such a provision, you need...more
Since the mid-1990s, human resource (HR) professionals (and those advising them) have relied on the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) “antitrust safety zone” articulated in Statement 6 of the...more
In January 2023, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a federal agency whose stated mission includes “protecting consumers and competition by preventing anticompetitive, deceptive, and unfair business practices,”...more
Last year, the Competition Act was amended to make it a criminal offense for two or more unrelated employers to enter into wage-fixing or no-poaching agreements. As we discussed last summer, these new provisions come into...more
On January 5, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) promulgated a proposed rule that would effectively ban all non-competes with employees and other workers (Proposed Rule). If adopted in its current form, the Proposed Rule...more
In a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking issued January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) proposes prohibiting employers from entering into non-compete clauses with workers and requiring employers to rescind existing...more
Employing a tool it has not used before, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is proposing to crush employers’ right to enter into noncompetition agreements with employees. On January 5, 2023, the FTC proposed a rule banning...more
On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-1 to propose the Noncompete Clause Rule (the rule), which would ban essentially all noncompete clauses that employers impose on their employees and other workers....more
On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission announced a proposed rule eliminating most non-compete provisions in employment agreements. The move by the FTC comes one day after the agency announced enforcement...more
Last week, the FTC announced two significant moves. First, the FTC brought its first major standalone Section 5 actions, targeting certain companies’ employment noncompete agreements as unfair methods of competition. The very...more
Nearly six years after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) put human resource executives and their companies on notice that no-poach and wage-fixing agreements would be subject to...more
It has been nearly a year since the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division (DOJ) made good on its promise to criminally charge companies that agree not to solicit each other's employees in so-called "no-poach"...more
Antitrust authorities are increasingly focused on anticompetitive agreements in the labour markets. In a recent speech held in Rome on 22 October 2021 ("A New Era of Cartel Enforcement"), EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe...more
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
In October 2016, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued an eleven-page joint guidance document entitled “Antitrust Guidance for Human Resource...more
M&A deal teams should take note of heightened scrutiny of HR and employment practices by antitrust enforcers in the US and Europe. No-poach, non-solicitation, and wage-fixing agreements - arrangements between companies...more
WHAT HAPPENED: • The Department of Justice filed a Statement of Interest in three related cases in the Eastern District of Washington yesterday dealing with alleged “no-poach” (or non-solicitation) agreements between...more
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
As highlighted in a recent lawsuit, aerospace and defense contractors can face various antitrust risks when using certain tactics to prevent other companies from hiring their employees. See Hunter v. Booz Allen Hamilton...more