{"id":195,"date":"2024-07-26T15:12:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T19:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/?p=195"},"modified":"2024-07-26T15:12:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T19:12:38","slug":"rhode-island-governor-vetoes-bill-banning-noncompetition-clauses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/2024\/07\/26\/rhode-island-governor-vetoes-bill-banning-noncompetition-clauses\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhode Island Governor Vetoes Bill Banning Noncompetition Clauses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 26, 2024, Governor Daniel McKee vetoed and returned to the state Senate 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>). As reported in our prior\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/rhode_island_legislature_votes_join_ranks_states_banning_noncompetition_customer_0624.html\"><i>Alert<\/i><\/a>, if signed into law, the bill would have banned and voided existing and future post-employment noncompetition and customer nonsolicitation covenants with essentially all employees.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full\u00a0<em>Alert<\/em> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/rhode_island_governor_vetoes_bill_banning_noncompetition_customer_nonsolicitaion_covenants_0724.html\">Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 26, 2024, Governor Daniel McKee vetoed and returned to the state Senate a bill to amend the Rhode Island Noncompetition Agreement Act (Senate Bill 2024-S 2436A\/2024-H 8059A). As reported in our prior\u00a0Alert, if signed into law, the bill would have banned and voided existing and future post-employment noncompetition and customer nonsolicitation covenants with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/2024\/07\/26\/rhode-island-governor-vetoes-bill-banning-noncompetition-clauses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rhode Island Governor Vetoes Bill Banning Noncompetition Clauses&#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":[202,205,200,61,204,77],"ppma_author":[155],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-larry-pockers","tag-miranda-bovit","tag-noncompete-ban","tag-nonsolicitation","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\/195","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=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/tradesecretslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}