A bill banning virtually all covenants not to compete (also known as non-compete agreements) is headed to the Minnesota State Senate and House of Representatives, where it is widely expected to pass.
With large global employers considering the implications of the FTC's proposed rulemaking, we reached out to attorneys across Littler’s European offices to find out how the law currently regulates non-competes.
This Littler Lightbulb highlights some of the more significant employment and labor law developments at the U.S. Supreme Court and federal courts of appeal over the last month.
A discussion of the practical implications of employment contracts in the Americas and their interaction with non-compete agreements and confidentiality clauses.
Layoffs are here and with them comes an often-overlooked threat: trade secret misappropriation. Thousands of tech workers have been laid off over the last year, and 61% of business leaders say their organizations will likely have layoffs in 2023.
Over the past several years, Connecticut’s legislature has enacted some significant employment laws that have re-shaped the workplace and posed new challenges for Connecticut employers. The 2023 legislative session looks to be no exception.
Canadian agency issued draft enforcement guidance on new wage-fixing agreement and no-poach agreement prohibitions included in amendments to Competition Act, which take effect on June 23, 2023.
Currently pending in the NJ Legislature is a bill that would upend decades of New Jersey jurisprudence governing restrictive covenants in employment contracts and severance agreements, and impose an array of new requirements for restrictive covenants.
On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission published a proposed rule that, if it became final, would ban all non-compete agreements with limited exceptions.
