{"id":159,"date":"2023-01-06T15:01:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T19:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/?p=159"},"modified":"2023-06-22T10:03:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T14:03:58","slug":"ftc-proposes-a-retroactive-nationwide-ban-on-non-compete-clauses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/2023\/01\/06\/ftc-proposes-a-retroactive-nationwide-ban-on-non-compete-clauses\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC Proposes a Retroactive, Nationwide Ban on Non-Compete Clauses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just one day after entering into\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/proposed_consent_orders_invalidating_noncompete_agreements_reflect_ftcs_broad_view_ftc_act_0123.html\">consent agreements invalidating non-competes<\/a>\u00a0with three companies, on January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/legal-library\/browse\/federal-register-notices\/non-compete-clause-rulemaking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed a new non-compete rule<\/a>\u00a0that would prohibit employers from entering into, maintaining, enforcing or threatening enforcement of a non-compete clause with virtually any worker and invalidate existing non-compete clauses with both current and former workers. If the non-compete rule is finalized by the FTC in the same or substantially same form as proposed, and if it survives the legal challenges that are sure to follow, the non-compete rule would make non-compete clauses an unfair method of competition under Section 5 of the FTC Act, regardless of inconsistent state statutes, regulations, orders or interpretations, and would represent a sea change in the law relating to non-compete clauses in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Rea the full\u00a0<em>Alert<\/em> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/ftc_proposed_nationwide_retroactive_ban_virtually_all_non_nompete_clauses_0123.html\">Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just one day after entering into\u00a0consent agreements invalidating non-competes\u00a0with three companies, on January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)\u00a0proposed a new non-compete rule\u00a0that would prohibit employers from entering into, maintaining, enforcing or threatening enforcement of a non-compete clause with virtually any worker and invalidate existing non-compete clauses with both current and former workers. If &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/2023\/01\/06\/ftc-proposes-a-retroactive-nationwide-ban-on-non-compete-clauses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FTC Proposes a Retroactive, Nationwide Ban on Non-Compete Clauses&#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":[179,176,6,125,45,77],"ppma_author":[155],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-aj-rudowitz","tag-ftc","tag-lawrence-h-pockers","tag-non-compete-clauses","tag-noncompetition","tag-shannon-hampton-sutherland"],"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","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","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=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}