It has been a busy year for health care noncompete legislation. Multiple states have enacted legislation, set to take effect in 2025, banning or limiting noncompete agreements for physicians and other health care workers....more
As our readers know, in 2024 the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) proposed regulation to eliminate almost all noncompete agreements did not come to fruition — at least for now. As we reported earlier this month, however, the...more
1/28/2025
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2024 was a year in which there were significant developments with respect to restrictive covenants, particularly for employment noncompete agreements. As our readers are aware, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a...more
As courts continue to be critical of noncompete agreements, employers must remain informed and proactive to make sure their agreements can withstand judicial scrutiny. Around this time last year, we reported on annual...more
As we continue to report, noncompete agreements are an area of ever-increasing scrutiny and limitation. Last year we wrote about states with civil and criminal penalties for violations of noncompete law, which is just one...more
In recent months, we have written quite a bit on the continuing trend to restrict employee non-compete agreements. For example, last month we reported on New York’s sweeping ban on non-competes, which was passed by the state...more
Earlier this month, we reported on the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) proposed regulation that, if adopted, would essentially abolish employee non-competes across the United States. While we await (and will promptly report...more
In early May 2022, New Jersey assemblymen introduced a bill that—if passed—will significantly limit employers’ ability to enter into and enforce employee non-compete agreements. As such, New Jersey may join the growing list...more
On May 31, the Illinois legislature passed a sweeping bill that overhauls the state’s noncompete and nonsolicitation laws. The bill was passed unanimously by the Illinois Senate and House of Representatives. If signed into...more