{"id":157,"date":"2023-06-02T15:54:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T19:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/?p=157"},"modified":"2023-06-22T09:57:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:57:51","slug":"nlrb-effort-the-latest-attempt-to-curtail-enforcement-of-non-compete-agreements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/2023\/06\/02\/nlrb-effort-the-latest-attempt-to-curtail-enforcement-of-non-compete-agreements\/","title":{"rendered":"NLRB Effort the Latest Attempt to Curtail Enforcement of Non-Compete Agreements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 30, 2023, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlrb.gov\/news-outreach\/news-story\/nlrb-general-counsel-issues-memo-on-non-competes-violating-the-national\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">memorandum<\/a>\u00a0asserting that the \u201cproffer, maintenance, and enforcement\u201d of most non-compete provisions in employment contracts violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). This memorandum follows on the heels of other recent efforts to curtail non-compete provisions, including the Federal Trade Commission\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/ftc_proposed_nationwide_retroactive_ban_virtually_all_non_nompete_clauses_0123.html\">proposed rule<\/a>\u00a0that\u2014if enacted and thereafter successful in promised court challenges\u2014would retroactively ban nearly all such provisions in employment agreements; a bipartisan\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/bipartisan_senate_bill_would_largely_eliminate_noncompete_agreements_0223.html\">Senate bill<\/a>\u00a0that would ban most non-compete provisions going forward; and a slew of recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/restricting_restrictions_new_legislation_washington_oregon_limits_enforceability_0619.html\">state legislation<\/a> making non-compete provisions more difficult for employers to enforce.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full\u00a0<em>Alert<\/em> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/nlrb_joins_efforts_curtail_enforcement_noncompete_agreements_0623.html\">Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 30, 2023, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a\u00a0memorandum\u00a0asserting that the \u201cproffer, maintenance, and enforcement\u201d of most non-compete provisions in employment contracts violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). This memorandum follows on the heels of other recent efforts to curtail non-compete provisions, including the Federal Trade Commission\u2019s\u00a0proposed rule\u00a0that\u2014if &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/2023\/06\/02\/nlrb-effort-the-latest-attempt-to-curtail-enforcement-of-non-compete-agreements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NLRB Effort the Latest Attempt to Curtail Enforcement of 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":[6,173,170,174,171,46,45,77,172],"ppma_author":[155],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-lawrence-h-pockers","tag-national-labor-relations-act","tag-national-labor-relations-board","tag-nlra","tag-nlrb","tag-non-competition","tag-noncompetition","tag-shannon-hampton-sutherland","tag-william-heaston"],"authors":[{"term_id":155,"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\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}