{"id":192,"date":"2024-04-23T13:04:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T17:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/?p=192"},"modified":"2024-07-26T15:05:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T19:05:57","slug":"ftc-bans-almost-all-noncompete-agreements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/2024\/04\/23\/ftc-bans-almost-all-noncompete-agreements\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC Bans Almost All Noncompete Agreements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)\u00a0voted 3-2 to approve a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/system\/files\/ftc_gov\/pdf\/noncompete-rule.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">final rule<\/a>\u00a0banning non-competes with all workers 120 days after publication in the Federal Register, and invalidating existing non-competes with all workers except senior executives. Although the final rule abandons many aspects of the rule proposed in January 2023 (<i>see<\/i>\u00a0our prior<em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/ftc_proposed_nationwide_retroactive_ban_virtually_all_non_nompete_clauses_0123.html\">Alert<\/a><\/em>), the final rule represents a sea change in the law relating to non-compete clauses in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full\u00a0<em>Alert<\/em> on the <a href=\"\/alerts\/ftc_votes_to_ban_noncompete_agreements_0424.html\">Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)\u00a0voted 3-2 to approve a\u00a0final rule\u00a0banning non-competes with all workers 120 days after publication in the Federal Register, and invalidating existing non-competes with all workers except senior executives. Although the final rule abandons many aspects of the rule proposed in January 2023 (see\u00a0our prior\u00a0Alert), the final rule &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/2024\/04\/23\/ftc-bans-almost-all-noncompete-agreements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FTC Bans Almost All Noncompete Agreements&#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":[176,202,200,77],"ppma_author":[155],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ftc","tag-larry-pockers","tag-noncompete-ban","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\/192","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=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}