{"id":162,"date":"2022-08-08T16:25:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T20:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/?p=162"},"modified":"2023-06-22T12:01:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T16:01:52","slug":"district-of-columbia-walks-back-noncompetition-ban-in-favor-of-income-based-threshold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/2022\/08\/08\/district-of-columbia-walks-back-noncompetition-ban-in-favor-of-income-based-threshold\/","title":{"rendered":"District of Columbia Walks Back Noncompetition Ban in Favor of Income-Based Threshold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our\u00a0<i>Alerts<\/i>\u00a0published\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/washington_dc_employers_prepare_broad_ban_noncompete_agreements_related_workplace_0121.html\">January 22, 2021<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/washington_dc_ban_noncompete_agreements_act_will_likely_not_apply_until_october_0221.html\">February 17, 2021<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/washington_dc_ban_noncompetes_postponed_again_october1_2022_0322.html\">March 17, 2022<\/a>, we detailed the Washington, D.C., Ban on\u00a0Non-Compete\u00a0Agreements Amendment\u00a0Act\u00a0of 2020. Among other provisions, had it taken effect, the 2020 Act would have rendered void and unenforceable any agreement prohibiting an employee from working for a competitor following employment and\u00a0<i>while the employee is still employed by the employer<\/i>. The ban on so-called in-term restrictive covenants\u2015standard provisions that prevent an employee from simultaneously working for a competitor of his or her employer\u2015would have been the first of its kind.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full\u00a0<em>Alert<\/em> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/washington_dc_walks_back_noncompetition_agreement_ban_enacts_income_based_0822.html\">Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our\u00a0Alerts\u00a0published\u00a0January 22, 2021,\u00a0February 17, 2021, and\u00a0March 17, 2022, we detailed the Washington, D.C., Ban on\u00a0Non-Compete\u00a0Agreements Amendment\u00a0Act\u00a0of 2020. Among other provisions, had it taken effect, the 2020 Act would have rendered void and unenforceable any agreement prohibiting an employee from working for a competitor following employment and\u00a0while the employee is still employed by the employer. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/2022\/08\/08\/district-of-columbia-walks-back-noncompetition-ban-in-favor-of-income-based-threshold\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;District of Columbia Walks Back Noncompetition Ban in Favor of Income-Based Threshold&#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":[169,190,6,46,182,77,191],"ppma_author":[155],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-bryan-shapiro","tag-income-based-thresholds","tag-lawrence-h-pockers","tag-non-competition","tag-noncompete-agreements","tag-shannon-hampton-sutherland","tag-washington-d-c"],"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\/162","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=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}