{"id":193,"date":"2024-06-24T15:06:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T19:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/?p=193"},"modified":"2024-07-26T15:07:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T19:07:51","slug":"rhode-island-legislature-votes-to-ban-noncompetition-and-customer-nonsolicitation-covenants-with-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/2024\/06\/24\/rhode-island-legislature-votes-to-ban-noncompetition-and-customer-nonsolicitation-covenants-with-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhode Island Legislature Votes to Ban Noncompetition and Customer Nonsolicitation Covenants with Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 13, 2024, the Rhode Island House passed, and the state Senate passed in concurrence, a bill to amend the Rhode Island Noncompetition Agreement Act (<a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/RI\/bill\/H8059\/2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 2024-S 2436A\/2024-H 8059A<\/a>), which would ban and void existing and future post-employment noncompetition and customer nonsolicitation covenants with virtually all employees.<\/p>\n<p>The existing Rhode Island Noncompetition Agreement Act, which went into effect in 2019, already prohibits noncompetition agreements with nonexempt and \u201clow-wage employees,\u201d undergraduate and graduate students and employees age 18 or younger. The new bill would significantly expand that ban to include all employees, except in limited circumstances, and render all prohibited noncompetition agreements \u201cnull and void\u201d and a \u201cviolation of public policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full\u00a0<em>Alert<\/em> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/rhode_island_legislature_votes_join_ranks_states_banning_noncompetition_customer_0624.html\">Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 13, 2024, the Rhode Island House passed, and the state Senate passed in concurrence, a bill to amend the Rhode Island Noncompetition Agreement Act (Senate Bill 2024-S 2436A\/2024-H 8059A), which would ban and void existing and future post-employment noncompetition and customer nonsolicitation covenants with virtually all employees. The existing Rhode Island Noncompetition Agreement &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/2024\/06\/24\/rhode-island-legislature-votes-to-ban-noncompetition-and-customer-nonsolicitation-covenants-with-employees\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rhode Island Legislature Votes to Ban Noncompetition and Customer Nonsolicitation Covenants with Employees&#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":[202,205,200,204,77],"ppma_author":[155],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-larry-pockers","tag-miranda-bovit","tag-noncompete-ban","tag-rhode-island","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","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","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=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}