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Employment Contract Non-Compete Agreements Preemption

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

What Physicians and Their Practices Need to Know About FTC's Noncompete Ban

On April 23, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved a long-anticipated final rule that will effectively ban the use of noncompete clauses by employers, with a few limited exceptions....more

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FTC Announces Open Commission Meeting to Vote to Issue Final Rule Banning Noncompetes

On April 16, 2024, more than fifteen months after issuing a notice of proposed rulemaking that would ban noncompetes and nearly a year after the comment period closed, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it was...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Preemption Questions Continue as FTC and NLRB Fight Restrictive Covenants

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As federal administrative agencies wade further into rulemaking and adjudicative efforts to outlaw noncompetes and restrictive covenants, defendants are beginning to raise preemption arguments in response to state court...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Did the NLRB Preempt Non-Compete Litigation?

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Over last week, two seemingly unconnected events happened that impact restrictive covenant and labor law. First, the National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, issued a memorandum opining that certain...more

Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld LLC

FTC Proposes Aggressive Rule That Would Decimate Employment Non-Competes

The federal government has proposed a rule to ban non-compete agreements between nearly all employers and all workers. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) believes this rule will increase wages by almost $300 billion annually...more

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Managing Employee Mobility Today: Are You Succeeding or Scrambling? - Take 5 Newsletter

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The 2019 legal landscape of employee mobility continues to evolve, at times drastically. Courts and legislatures are giving increased scrutiny to employers’ claims to protect the confidentiality of their trade secrets and...more

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District Court Case Highlights Advantages of ERISA Severance Plans

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Specialists have long touted certain significant advantages to employers that come along with maintaining ERISA severance plans, and a recent district court case highlights some of these advantages....more

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