{"id":164,"date":"2022-03-17T16:53:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T20:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/?p=164"},"modified":"2023-06-22T12:01:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T16:01:25","slug":"washington-d-c-ban-on-noncompetes-postponed-again-to-october-1-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/2022\/03\/17\/washington-d-c-ban-on-noncompetes-postponed-again-to-october-1-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington, D.C., Again Postpones Its Ban on Noncompetes"},"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<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/washington_dc_ban_noncompete_agreements_act_will_likely_not_apply_until_october_0221.html\">February 17<\/a>, 2021, we detailed the various provisions of the broad, new Washington, D.C., Ban on\u00a0Non-Compete\u00a0Agreements Amendment\u00a0Act\u00a0of 2020 (the Act), slated to take effect once the District of Columbia Council funded the law through the appropriations process. Among other provisions, the Act would render 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 be the first of its kind in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full\u00a0<em>Alert<\/em> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/washington_dc_ban_noncompetes_postponed_again_october1_2022_0322.html\">Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our\u00a0Alerts\u00a0published\u00a0January 22\u00a0and\u00a0February 17, 2021, we detailed the various provisions of the broad, new Washington, D.C., Ban on\u00a0Non-Compete\u00a0Agreements Amendment\u00a0Act\u00a0of 2020 (the Act), slated to take effect once the District of Columbia Council funded the law through the appropriations process. Among other provisions, the Act would render void and unenforceable any agreement prohibiting an employee from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/2022\/03\/17\/washington-d-c-ban-on-noncompetes-postponed-again-to-october-1-2022\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Washington, D.C., Again Postpones Its Ban on Noncompetes&#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":[169,192,6,13,77,191],"ppma_author":[155],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-bryan-shapiro","tag-in-term-restrictive-covenants","tag-lawrence-h-pockers","tag-non-compete","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","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\/164","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=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}