{"id":94,"date":"2024-02-08T15:34:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T19:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/?p=94"},"modified":"2024-02-16T15:36:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T19:36:53","slug":"is-misclassification-of-workers-an-unfair-method-of-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/2024\/02\/08\/is-misclassification-of-workers-an-unfair-method-of-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Misclassification of Workers an Unfair Method of Competition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is signaling its intent to get further involved in employment practices after its activity of the last year and a half in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/ftc_proposed_nationwide_retroactive_ban_virtually_all_non_nompete_clauses_0123.html\">proposing a ban<\/a>\u00a0on noncompete clauses in employment contracts and signing a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to bolster the FTC\u2019s efforts to promote competitive U.S. labor markets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/wil_ftc_consider_misclassification_workers_unfair_method_competition_0224.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full\u00a0<em>Alert<\/em> on the Duane Morris website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is signaling its intent to get further involved in employment practices after its activity of the last year and a half in\u00a0proposing a ban\u00a0on noncompete clauses in employment contracts and signing a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to bolster the FTC\u2019s efforts to promote competitive &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/2024\/02\/08\/is-misclassification-of-workers-an-unfair-method-of-competition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Misclassification of Workers an Unfair Method of Competition?&#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":[11,10,12,13],"ppma_author":[5],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-antitrust","tag-competition","tag-maria-caceres-boneau","tag-sarah-olaughlin-kulik"],"authors":[{"term_id":5,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7e1f720079bb9c5f7f3d02f11a102b31d50b9071b40283de6cf5ac7a5e6f35b7?s=96&d=blank&r=g","author_category":"1","last_name":"Davies","first_name":"Thomas","job_title":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}