On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) for a non-compete clause rule. The NPR, if approved as published, would ban as an unfair method of competition all non-compete clauses between an employer and workers in all industry sectors throughout the country. The NPR might also extend
On January 5, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued an extremely broad Notice of Proposed Rulemaking which, if adopted in its current form, would prohibit nearly all private employers from entering into or enforcing non-compete agreements with their employees. In this Client Alert, our partner Thomas C. Senter outlines key provisions of the proposed
Restrictive covenants are commonplace in the healthcare space. Doctors and hospitals routinely enter into non-compete and non-solicitation agreements in an effort to retain talent, among other reasons. However, in May of 2022 the New Jersey Assembly proposed legislation that may serve to significantly limit the scope of restrictive covenants, both within the healthcare space and