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Data from 2018 indicates that non-compete clauses cover 18 percent of American labor force participants. [2] A 2023 petition to the FTC to ban non-compete agreements estimated that about 30 million workers (about 20% of all U.S. workers) were subject to a noncompete clause. [3]
The Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 Tuesday to ban most noncompete agreements, a watershed moment for the U.S. workforce that faces an uncertain future. These common agreements currently bar ...
A sweeping federal ban on noncompete agreements -- which was set to take effect for tens of millions of Americans nationwide on Sept. 4 -- is now permanently on hold. An estimated 30 million ...
(Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Trade Commission's ban on "noncompete" agreements commonly signed by workers is likely vulnerable to legal challenges, experts said, as some courts have grown ...
University of Chicago Law School Professor Eric A. Posner has argued that since non-competes have an adverse impact on competition, they should be covered under a strong anti-trust regime, and the "law should treat noncompetes as presumptively illegal, allowing employers to rebut the presumption if they can prove that the noncompetes they use ...
Non-solicitation agreement provisions—alongside the non-compete clause (NCC) and the non-disclosure agreement (NDA)—constitute one of three restrictive covenants frequently found within a business contract. They may be entered into with both employees and independent contractors—in addition to multiple entities—as part of a larger ...
FTC's noncompete ban could reshape the US workplace. Alexis Keenan. April 28, 2024 at 10:00 AM ... James Witz, co-chair of Littler’s unfair competition and trade secrets practice group, ...
A radius clause is a form of non-compete clause used in the live music industry, in which a tour promoter stipulates that a performer, for a certain length of time prior to or following an appearance at a concert or festival, must not hold concerts at other locations within a certain radius of the city where they are to perform.