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The recent federal court ruling striking down the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) rule banning non-compete agreements has left many employers breathing a sigh of relief. However, this does not mean that non-compete...more
In Samuelian v. Life Generations Healthcare, LLC, — Cal. App. 5th —, 2024 WL 3878448 (Cal. App. Aug. 20, 2024), the California Court of Appeal answered two long outstanding questions of California law concerning the...more
Real World Impact: Making good on her promise to make a ruling on the FTC Noncompete Rule on or before August 30, 2024, United States District Judge Ada Brown granted a motion for summary judgment that sets aside the FTC...more
A Texas federal court just struck down the FTC’s proposed ban on non-competition agreements on a nationwide basis mere weeks before it was set to take effect, meaning employers across the country can breathe a sigh of relief...more
A Florida federal court became the second court in the nation Wednesday to rule that the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed ban on most non-compete agreements cannot be enforced. Chief Judge Timothy Corrigan, from the Middle...more
Even though the FTC’s impending rule that will ban most non-competition agreements specifically carves out claims for violations that accrue before the rule goes into effect – an exception that many federal courts have...more
Minnesota’s legislature rushed through several bills this year affecting recruiting and staffing associations and other service providers such as property management companies. One such law may, as one member of the Minnesota...more
The Federal Trade Commission on April 23 approved a Final Rule banning almost all worker noncompete clauses (noncompete rule). Absent a court entering a nationwide injunction or vacating the rule, it is set to go into effect...more
On May 7, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) published its final rule (the “Rule”) broadly banning most noncompete provisions in employment-related agreements and preventing employers from enforcing them. The Rule...more
A Pennsylvania federal judge has just declined to issue an order to preliminarily block the FTC’s non-compete ban ahead of its September 4 effective date. The court rejected the employer’s argument that the rule is an...more
With the Federal Trade Commission’s Final Rule that would ban noncompetes nationwide set to go into effect on September 4, 2024, assuming pending litigation doesn’t cause any delays, employers should begin planning now to...more
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas last week issued an order and opinion granting a preliminary injunction staying the effective date for enforcement of the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”)...more
As most employers are aware, and as we previously discussed in an April blog post, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) enacted a sweeping administrative rule banning the vast majority of non-competition agreements in the...more
When the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its long-awaited final rule banning virtually all noncompete clauses between workers and employers, it also published 500-plus pages of commentary....more
The FTC’s recently issued Final Rule banning non-competes for most workers prohibits an employer from (1) threatening to enforce a non-compete against a worker, (2) advising the worker that, due to a non-compete, they should...more
On May 31, 2024, the Governor of Colorado signed House Bill 24-1324, titled “Attorney General Restrictive Employment Agreements,” putting into place a law to toughen protections for employees who are subject to abusive...more
Washington state law just changed in a way that might have made your company’s non-solicitation agreements unenforceable and illegal. Recent amendments to the state non-compete statute took effect on June 6 and significantly...more
What's the latest on the legal challenges to the FTC's ban on non-compete agreements? Here is a timeline of the decisions and events leading up to the final rule and the legal challenges since: • January 5, 2023 – The...more
As we recently reported, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its long-awaited final rule on April 23, 2024, banning virtually all noncompetition agreements between employers and workers. Lawsuits challenging the final...more
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has issued an aggressive scheduling order that “should allow prompt resolution of” one of the initial challenges to the FTC’s noncompete ban “with sufficient time,...more
On April 24, 2024, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) promulgated its final rule prohibiting non-competes for most workers in the United States (the “Final Rule”). The Final Rule raises several issues, including...more
On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted in a 3 to 2 decision along party lines to adopt its Final Non-Compete Clause Rule (“Noncompete Rule”) banning post-employment non-compete clauses between employers...more
In a novel and sweeping act of substantive rulemaking, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) determined that non-compete agreements between employers and workers constitute an “unfair method of competition” prohibited under...more
A bill amending Washington’s noncompete law (RCW 49.62) goes into effect on June 6, 2024. One of the changes will require prompt review and likely revisions of existing non-solicitation agreements....more
New York City lawmakers are considering a measure that would make the city the latest jurisdiction to ban noncompete agreements between employers and their employees, after Governor Kathy Hochul in December 2023 vetoed a...more