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Non-Compete Agreements are contracts, typically formed in employment or business purchase contexts, where one party agrees to refrain from engaging in a particular line of work or pursuing business within a certain industry or locale. The purpose of these agreements is to protect employers or business purchasers from competition stemming from former employees or former owners of a business. less -

In Compliance: Holtzman Vogel's August 2024 Round-Up

Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak on 8/28/2024

Eighth Circuit Invalidates Missouri's Two-Year Lobbying Ban for Former Legislators and Staffers - The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals invalidated a Missouri state constitutional amendment that imposed a two-year lobbying...more

[Webinar] 2024 Labor & Employment Law Virtual Update - September 18th, 8:30 am - 11:00 am ET

Foster Swift Collins & Smith on 8/7/2024

It has been a particularly busy year on the labor and employment law front. To learn more about the major challenges employers face and developments your organization needs to address before year's end, we encourage you to...more

Your Non-Compete and Trade Secrets To-Do List for August 2024

Fisher Phillips on 8/5/2024

Courts and lawmakers around the country are constantly refining the laws on non-competition, non-solicitation, and non-disclosure agreements, which means employers need to stay up to speed in order to prevent unfair...more

Summer 2024 Employment and Benefits Updates

Sullivan & Worcester on 7/30/2024

The rate of change in the employment and benefits area seems to be accelerating. This alert addresses some of the changes that have been of most concern to our clients. Observations on Long-Time Part-Time Employee...more

OFCCP Week In Review: April 2024 #4

DirectEmployers Association on 4/23/2024

Tuesday, April 16, 2024: Federal Trade Commission Poised to Issue Final Rule to Prevent Most Worker Non-Compete Agreements - The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) is on the brink of issuing its Final Rule that would...more

Major proposed changes to US antitrust rules present new hurdles

White & Case LLP on 12/18/2023

Under the Biden administration, the US antitrust agencies—the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (DOJ)—have proposed widespread changes to antitrust policy, creating uncertainty for...more

A Summary of New Laws Coming for California Employers in 2024

Farella Braun + Martel LLP on 12/7/2023

In 2023, California has adopted several new employment laws either introducing new employee protections or codifying existing practices into state law. With these changes, employers will need to examine and adjust some of...more

California’s Non-Compete Shakeup

Littler on 10/18/2023

California enacted two new bills expanding the scope and consequences of the state’s policies against restrictive covenants. Governor Newsom signed Senate Bill 699 into law on September 1, 2023, and Assembly Bill 1076 into...more

Reminder: Minnesota Non-Compete Ban Takes Effect on Saturday, July 1

Epstein Becker & Green on 6/30/2023

As we previously reported, Minnesota will soon become only the fourth state (along with California, Oklahoma and North Dakota) to ban noncompetes. The state’s new law renders void and unenforceable all covenants not to...more

Minnesota Non-Compete Ban Signed into Law and Effective July 1, 2023

Stinson LLP on 5/31/2023

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has now officially signed into law a bill including provisions that will prohibit employment noncompetition agreements. MN SF 3035, signed by Governor Walz on May 24, 2023, restricts employers from...more

McDermottPlus Check-Up: May 19, 2023

McDermott+ on 5/19/2023

The House and Senate were both in session this week, with significant healthcare activity at the committee level. The House Ways & Means Committee met to discuss healthcare price transparency, and the Ways & Means Health...more

FTC Waging War on Non-Compete Restrictions in Employment

CDF Labor Law LLP on 4/13/2023

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed new Federal regulations to ban non-compete clauses from employment agreements nationwide. The ban will include non-solicitation and other restrictions that are currently designed to...more

Employment Flash: Special Edition

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/13/2023

The new year has brought a slew of changes in state laws, including those governing employee leave, privacy, as well as workplace discrimination and harassment. The federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and PUMP Act added...more

OFCCP Week In Review - January 2023 #2

DirectEmployers Association on 1/10/2023

Friday, December 23, 2022: Once again, USDOL Secretary Used Prior Secretary Scalia’s Order 01-2020 to Intervene in an OFCCP Administrative Action - Secretary Reversed ARB/ALJ Rulings and Made New Rules for Remedies for...more

2023 State Employment Law Updates: From Pay to Hair, Cannabis, and More

DarrowEverett LLP on 12/20/2022

The coming new year brings new changes, new goals, and newly amended employment laws. Although some jurisdictions jumped the gun (looking at you D.C. noncompete law), starting on January 1, many states are implementing new...more

Noncompete News Alert: Update to Washington, D.C. Ban on Noncompete Agreements

FordHarrison on 11/29/2022

D.C. Noncompete Ban, Years in the Making: On January 25, 2021, FordHarrison published a Legal Alert indicating that Washington, D.C. would soon implement a ban on noncompete agreements. As noted, the Ban on Non-Compete...more

New California Labor Code Statute Results In Enforceable Covenant Not To Compete

Allen Matkins on 11/12/2018

In October 2016, I wrote about a newly enacted statute, Labor Code Section 925. That statute prohibits an employer from requiring an employee who primarily resides and works in California, as a condition of employment, to...more

Massachusetts’ New Non-Compete Law Now In Effect

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP on 10/3/2018

This week, Massachusetts’ Noncompetition Agreement Act became effective. For employers, this means that all non-compete agreements entered into on or after October 1, 2018 must comply with the new law’s requirements. It is...more

Massachusetts Passes New Law Governing Non-Competition Agreements

Epstein Becker & Green on 9/11/2018

On August 10, 2018, the Governor of Massachusetts signed “An Act relative to the judicial enforcement of noncompetition agreements,” otherwise known as the Massachusetts Noncompetition Agreement Act (“Act”), § 24L of Chapter...more

Massachusetts Employers – Beware of New Non-Compete Law

Williams Mullen on 8/28/2018

Do you have employees in Massachusetts? Do you use non-compete agreements with those employees? Come October, your ability to enter into those types of agreements will be curtailed significantly....more

If You Have Employees Who Live or Work in Massachusetts, You Need to Relearn Non-Competes Right Now.

Brooks Pierce on 8/23/2018

For companies with employees or contractors who live or work in Massachusetts, a recently passed law has significantly changed how covenants not to compete in that state may be used. The new law, which will take effect in...more

States Continue to Revise Non-Compete Laws

BCLP on 8/22/2018

Following the “Call to Action” that was issued by the White House and the U.S. Department of Treasury in October, 2016 concerning what the Obama Administration perceived as overuse of non-compete agreements, a number of...more

Key Changes to Massachusetts Noncompetes – Part I

Burns & Levinson LLP on 8/16/2018

Over the years, I have written blog posts related to a plethora of nuances concerning noncompetition agreements. While the signing into law last Friday of new legislation on noncompetes does not eviscerate them (despite...more

13 Takeaways Regarding Massachusetts’ New Noncompetition Agreement Law

Latham & Watkins LLP on 8/16/2018

A new Massachusetts law significantly limits when and with whom an employer can enforce a noncompetition agreement entered into on or after October 1, 2018. On August 10, 2018, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed...more

Alabama’s Restrictive Covenants Statute: New Insight on Retroactivity, Employee Training, and the Blue Pencil Rule

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 9/19/2016

Alabama’s new restrictive covenant statute became effective on January 1, 2016. Recently published committee comments clarified certain provisions of the law. The following briefly summarizes the final committee comments...more

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