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Employer Liability Issues Restrictive Covenants New Regulations

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SuperVision - Labor and Employment Law Insights, Issue 1, March 2025

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

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

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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

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California’s Non-Compete Shakeup

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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FTC Waging War on Non-Compete Restrictions in Employment

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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

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

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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

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Massachusetts Passes New Law Governing Non-Competition Agreements

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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

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Massachusetts Employers – Beware of New Non-Compete Law

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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

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

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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

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States Continue to Revise Non-Compete Laws

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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

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13 Takeaways Regarding Massachusetts’ New Noncompetition Agreement Law

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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

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What Business Owners Should Know About Massachusetts’ New Non-Compete Law

On August 10, 2018, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed into law a piece of legislation entitled “An Act Relative to Economic Development in the Commonwealth.” This new legislation brings long-awaited non-compete...more

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