{"id":149,"date":"2024-04-24T08:44:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T12:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/?p=149"},"modified":"2024-04-24T08:44:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T12:44:07","slug":"ftc-votes-to-ban-non-compete-agreements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/2024\/04\/24\/ftc-votes-to-ban-non-compete-agreements\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC Votes to Ban Non-Compete Agreements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)\u00a0voted 3-2 to approve a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/system\/files\/ftc_gov\/pdf\/noncompete-rule.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">final rule<\/a> banning non-competes with all workers 120 days after publication in the Federal Register, and invalidating existing non-competes with all workers except senior executives. Although the final rule abandons many aspects of the rule proposed in January 2023, the final rule represents a sea change in the law relating to non-compete clauses in the United States. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/ftc_votes_to_ban_noncompete_agreements_0424.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full\u00a0<em>Alert\u00a0<\/em>on the Duane Morris website.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)\u00a0voted 3-2 to approve a\u00a0final rule banning non-competes with all workers 120 days after publication in the Federal Register, and invalidating existing non-competes with all workers except senior executives. Although the final rule abandons many aspects of the rule proposed in January 2023, the final rule represents &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/2024\/04\/24\/ftc-votes-to-ban-non-compete-agreements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FTC Votes to Ban Non-Compete Agreements&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,11,16,59,17],"ppma_author":[5],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-anticompetition","tag-antitrust","tag-ftc","tag-noncompete-agreements","tag-sean-mcconnell"],"authors":[{"term_id":5,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}