Virginia has expanded its limited prohibitions on the use of noncompetition agreements for “low-wage employees,” which have been in place since 2020. On March 24, 2025, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed Virginia Senate...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division (Division), together with the Department of Labor (DOL) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), recently issued two new sources of guidance continuing the increased focus on...more
1/24/2025
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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
On August 20, 2024, the Northern District of Texas issued its final ruling in Ryan, LLC. v. FTC on the merits of cross-motions for summary judgment, contesting the legality of the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”)...more
On July 23, 2024, the Pennsylvania Eastern District Court upheld the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Non-Compete Clause Rule (“Rule”), issued in April 2024 to prohibit most employee non-compete agreements. Earlier this...more
July 3rd, the Northern District of Texas issued a ruling regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Non‑Compete Clause Rule (“Rule”), which was set to prohibit most employee non‑compete agreements. In Ryan, LLC. v. FTC,...more
As stated in original Client Alert, on April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) adopted a Non‑Compete Clause Rule (the “Rule”) prohibiting most employee non-compete agreements as unfair methods of competition. The...more
On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) adopted a Non‑Compete Clause Rule (the “Rule”) prohibiting most employee non‑compete agreements as unfair methods of competition by a vote of 3 to 2. The Rule is a...more
Employers take note: a series of recent developments could impact employment agreements across the country.
SB 699: A New Addition to California Non-Compete Law-
Under California Business and Professions Code Section...more
10/9/2023
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On May 30, 2023, the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, Jennifer Abruzzo, issued GC Memorandum 23-08, asserting that non-compete agreements generally violate the National Labor Relations Act. Much like the...more
On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced a proposed regulation that would ban non-compete agreements between workers and employers, with some limited exceptions (the “Proposed Rule”). The Proposed...more
On July 27, 2022, the D.C. Council enacted the long-awaited Non-Compete Clarification Amendment Act of 2022 (“the Amendment”), which amends the previously passed Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Amendment Act of 2020 (the “Act”)...more