Last week, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission issued a rule banning provisions in employment contracts that forbid employees to work for a competitor after they quit or are fired. Within hours, a Texas ...

Nearly two years ago, President Biden issued an executive order calling on the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) to ban or limit non-compete agreements, stating that workers should be free to take a ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a final rule in April that will invalidate existing non-compete agreements and non-compete clauses in agreements. There is a carve-out for an EXISTING ...

Jason Leverant serves as the President and Chief Operating Officer of the AtWork Group, an award-winning national staffing firm. A new rule by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has the potential to ...

Non-compete clauses in employment agreements typically prevent former employees from working for a competitor of the former employer for a specific period of time in a designated geographical area.

The Federal Trade Commission voted earlier this week to ban non-compete agreements. Those are the clauses in an employment contract that can prevent someone from leaving a company and taking a ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. While non-compete agreements survived two federal agencies ...

A system of non-competition clauses enforced by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) workforce suppliers is allegedly trapping aerospace professionals who work at ESA’s facilities across Europe in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South Carolina representatives proposed eliminating non-compete clauses in physician contracts. (File photo/Getty Images) Banning ...

William van Caenegem received funding from the Australian Research Council a decade ago for some of the research referred to in this article. The Labor government used this week’s budget to announce ...