On January 11, 2021, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Amendment Act of 2020 (the Act), which takes effect after a 30-day congressional review period, approval and publication in the District of Columbia Register. Although several nearby states, such as Maryland and Virginia, have followed the growing trend of recently enacted laws limiting the use of noncompete agreements, the Act differs in two significant respects: (1)\u00a0it<\/b>\u00a0applies to employees at all income levels\u00a0<\/b>and (2)\u00a0prohibits the use of noncompetes and related workplace policies during employment<\/b>. As more fully discussed below, this means that employers need to take swift action to address noncompete, nonsolicitation and confidentiality agreements, as well as workplace policies aimed at preventing outside employment and conflicts of interest, as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
Read the full\u00a0Alert<\/em> on the Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On January 11, 2021, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Amendment Act of 2020 (the Act), which takes effect after a 30-day congressional review period, approval and publication in the District of Columbia Register. Although several nearby states, such as Maryland and Virginia, have followed the growing trend of recently … <\/p>\n Continue reading “Washington, D.C., Employers Brace for Noncompete Agreement Ban and Related Workplace Policies”<\/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":[44,191],"ppma_author":[155],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-noncompete","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":"Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","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=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}