{"id":167,"date":"2021-05-03T17:07:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T21:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/?p=167"},"modified":"2023-06-22T12:10:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T16:10:57","slug":"pennsylvanias-high-court-finds-businesses-no-hire-provision-unreasonably-in-restraint-of-trade-and-therefore-unenforceable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/2021\/05\/03\/pennsylvanias-high-court-finds-businesses-no-hire-provision-unreasonably-in-restraint-of-trade-and-therefore-unenforceable\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania&#8217;s High Court Finds Businesses&#8217; No-Hire Provision &#8220;Unreasonably in Restraint of Trade and Therefore Unenforceable&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its April 29, 2021, opinion,\u00a0<i>Pittsburgh Logistics Systems v. Beemac Trucking<\/i>,\u2015A.3d\u2015, No. 31 WAP 2019, 2021 WL 1676399 (Pa. Apr. 29, 2021), the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania weighed in on whether no-hire, or \u201cno-poach,\u201d provisions that are ancillary to a services contract between business entities are enforceable under Pennsylvania law. The court declined to hold such provisions\u00a0<i>per se\u00a0<\/i>unenforceable. Its answer for the clause at issue, however, was a resounding \u201cno.\u201d Now, more than ever, it is critical for Pennsylvania companies and employers to consult with legal counsel to evaluate any no-poach provisions in commercial and employment agreements to increase the chances that these provisions will be upheld.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full\u00a0<em>Alert<\/em> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/supreme_court_pennsylvania_finds_nohire_provisions_between_two_businesses_unreasonably_0521.html\">Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its April 29, 2021, opinion,\u00a0Pittsburgh Logistics Systems v. Beemac Trucking,\u2015A.3d\u2015, No. 31 WAP 2019, 2021 WL 1676399 (Pa. Apr. 29, 2021), the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania weighed in on whether no-hire, or \u201cno-poach,\u201d provisions that are ancillary to a services contract between business entities are enforceable under Pennsylvania law. The court declined to hold &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/2021\/05\/03\/pennsylvanias-high-court-finds-businesses-no-hire-provision-unreasonably-in-restraint-of-trade-and-therefore-unenforceable\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pennsylvania&#8217;s High Court Finds Businesses&#8217; No-Hire Provision &#8220;Unreasonably in Restraint of Trade and Therefore Unenforceable&#8221;&#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":[6,144,196,143,77,195,194],"ppma_author":[155],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-lawrence-h-pockers","tag-no-hire-provision","tag-no-poach","tag-pennsylvania","tag-shannon-hampton-sutherland","tag-supreme-court-of-pennsylvania","tag-tom-servodidio"],"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\/167","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=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}