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Be Global: Employment Law in 5

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5 developments to read for September in less than 5 minutes - Focus: On the Middle East - In the Middle East, requirements to hire local citizens are expanding. Oman is moving towards private sector Omanisation through new...more

Troutman Pepper

States' Action Still Viable Despite Ban of FTC Noncompete Rule

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The Northern District of Texas’s nationwide ban on the Federal Trade Commission’s noncompete rule isn’t a complete bar to government enforcement. The rule sought to curb unfair methods of competition and would have voided...more

Clark Hill PLC

The Learned Concierge - September 2024, Vol. 12

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The Learned Concierge - Welcome to your monthly legal insights on the trends impacting the Retail, Hospitality, and Food & Beverage Industries....more

Burr & Forman

FTC Non-Compete Ban: Implications for the Health Care Industry

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Earlier this year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved a final rule that invalidates most post-engagement non-compete covenants in all agreements. This rule prohibits use and enforcement of non-compete covenants and...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

The FTC Rule on Employee Non-Competes Goes into Effect September 4: What Employers Need to Do Now

You may have heard or seen in the news that on April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) issued a Final Rule making most covenants not to compete between employers and their workers illegal and void (the...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Who Qualifies As a ‘Senior Executive’ Under the FTC Noncompete Rule?

With the demise of the doctrine of Chevron deference at the U.S. Supreme Court in the Loper Bright Enterprises case, the future of the Federal Trade Commission’s broad rule banning noncompete agreements nationwide is...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Injunction Junction: Judicial Challenges to New Employment Rules

April 2024 saw a whirlwind of activity on the employment front as executive federal agencies issued a wave of new rules. On April 15, 2024, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) announced its final rule...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

FTC Approves Final Rule Banning Non-Compete Clauses

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued a final rule (“Final Rule”) broadly banning non-competition (“non-compete”) agreements nationwide. With limited exceptions, the Final Rule prohibits employers...more

Otten Johnson Robinson Neff + Ragonetti PC

The FTC Bans Non-Compete Agreements – What You Need to Know

In a vote held at a special open commission meeting on April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-2 in favor of issuing the final Non-Complete Clause Rule (the Final Rule) banning post-employment non-compete...more

Carr Maloney P.C.

FTC Issues Final Rule Banning Most Non-Compete Agreements

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By Thomas McCally and Janette M. Blee On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-to-2 to issue a final rule that will ban most employer-employee non-compete agreements.  The final rule is scheduled to go...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Scope and Impact of the FTC’s Non-Compete Rule for Employers

On April 23, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted to adopt a monumental final rule prohibiting employers from entering into non-competes against all workers within the jurisdiction of the FTC – a move that is poised to...more

Dickinson Wright

美国联邦贸易委员会宣布员工将不受大部分竞业条款的限制 – 禁令的范围是什么?禁令会持续多久?

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FTC Declares Employees Free from Most Noncompetes, But How Far Does the Ban Go and Will It Last? During an Open Commission Meeting on April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) voted 3-2 in favor of issuing the...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Federal Trade Commission Announces New Rule Invalidating Non-Compete Agreements

Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced its long-anticipated final rule finding that the vast majority of non-compete agreements constitute unfair methods of competition, and are thus invalid. An estimated...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

FTC Adopts Broad Ban on the Use of Non-Compete Clauses in Employment Agreements

The Federal Trade Commission has adopted a final rule (“Rule”) declaring it to be an unfair method of competition: With respect to a worker other than a senior executive: To enter into or attempt to enter into a...more

Burr & Forman

FTC Votes To Ban Most Noncompete Provisions

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In a monumental move, the Federal Trade Commission approved a final rule on April 23, 2024, that effectively invalidates most noncompete agreements. This rule will take effect 120 days after it is published in the Federal...more

Franczek P.C.

Important Takeaways from the Final Rule Banning Non-Competes

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In an anticipated yet groundbreaking turn of events, on April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) voted 3-2 to issue a Final Non-Compete Clause Rule (the “Final Rule”) which bans U.S. employers from using...more

Hinckley Allen

Federal Trade Commission Issues Final Rule Prohibiting Non-Compete Agreements

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On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) approved and issued a final rule effectively banning non-compete agreements nationwide (the “Final Rule”). As a result of a 3-to-2 vote, the FTC found that non-compete...more

CDF Labor Law LLP

FTC Imposes Sweeping Ban on Non-Compete Agreements In Employment

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The Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) Commissioners’ voted 3-2 to approve rules first announced in January 2023 to, essentially, ban the use of non-compete agreements in most employment relationships in the United States...more

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog

FTC Votes to Finalize Rule Banning Non-Compete Agreements Nationwide

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (the Commission) voted 3-2 to finalize a rule banning nearly all worker non-compete agreements nationwide (the Final Rule). The Final Rule will have wide-ranging effects for...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

What the FTC’s Rule Banning Non-Competes Means for Healthcare

The FTC unveiled its long-awaited final rule banning most non-compete agreements during a live broadcast of a Commission meeting on April 23, 2024. The proposed rule, which was first announced in January 2023, underwent an...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

FTC Non-Compete Ban: What Employers Need To Know

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued a final rule (the “Rule”) that would ban almost all non-competition agreements in the United States.  The Rule comes a little over a year since the FTC proposed...more

Gibney Anthony & Flaherty, LLP

FTC Issues Final Rule Effectively Banning Workplace Non-Compete Agreements

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it had approved its final rule that would effectively ban workplace non-compete agreements, with limited exceptions (the “Final Rule”). The effective date of the...more

Saul Ewing LLP

The FTC Votes to Approve a Final Rule Banning Non-Compete Clauses

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Non-Compete Clauses Banned By The FTC - In January 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking for a comprehensive ban on employee non-compete clauses. The FTC received over 26,000 comments...more

K&L Gates LLP

Challenge Accepted: Federal Trade Commission Issues Final Rule Banning Noncompete Agreements for Most Workers

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On Tuesday, 23 April 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) hosted a Special Open Commission Meeting, in which the Commissioners voted 3-2 to publish and issue a Final Rule that: bans for-profit employers from...more

Alston & Bird

What Workers Are Covered by the FTC’s Ban of Noncompete Clauses?

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Our Labor & Employment and Antitrust teams unpack the new Federal Trade Commission rule banning most employer noncompete clauses....more

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